You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
ADA LEVERSONThere is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
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Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits
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There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.
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Since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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