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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

Ada Leverson

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
ADA LEVERSON

Banging Depressing Drum Man Real Shrieking Young
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
ADA LEVERSON

Causes Curious Domestic Infectious Life Propensity Suffering
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSON

Attention Most People Seen Through Visible Vision
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
ADA LEVERSON

Children Doll Elaborate Giving Happier Pie Rag
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
ADA LEVERSON

Infidelity Morning Night Noon Reson Suspect
Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
ADA LEVERSON

Extent Followed People Proportion Treasure Value
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Betrayal Betrayed Hold Person Position Rule Superior Two
When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
ADA LEVERSON

Believe Fade Ideal Passion Realize Trust Worship
To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
ADA LEVERSON

Either Man Mean Nice Thing Woman
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Crisis Dense Domestic Fatally Tragedy Usually Wrong
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!
ADA LEVERSON

Great Happiness Ideal Man Thinking Wife Woman
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSON

Black Look Preverse Suit Well Woman
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Envy Merit Object Deserving Rather Recognition Rule
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSON

Eye Feet Look Man Optimist Person Pessimist
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
ADA LEVERSON

Archbishop Butler Country English Household Should
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
ADA LEVERSON

Know Letter Read Until Woman

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