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Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

Ada Leverson

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
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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Archbishop Butler Country English Household Should
Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
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Beautiful Book Gray Meandering Oscar Poem Text Tiniest
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
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Domesticity Home Husband Passion
It depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can’t be real. It ought to be but it isn’t. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn’t say it.
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Depresses Impression Naturally Ought Person Since
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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Banging Depressing Drum Man Real Shrieking Young
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Intuition Man Perhaps Quality Seen Women
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
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Happy May People Remain Remember Talking
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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Attention Most People Seen Through Visible Vision
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
ADA LEVERSON

Appearance Extremely Merit Modesty People
It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Always Failure One Requirement Something Wish
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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Crisis Dense Domestic Fatally Tragedy Usually Wrong
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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Causes Curious Domestic Infectious Life Propensity Suffering
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.
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Extent Followed People Proportion Treasure Value

Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

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