There 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.
ADA LEVERSONModesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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