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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

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.
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Either Man Mean Nice Thing Woman
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Eye Feet Look Man Optimist Person Pessimist
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
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Cod Serve
When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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Believe Fade Ideal Passion Realize Trust Worship
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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Appearance Extremely Merit Modesty People
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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Children Doll Elaborate Giving Happier Pie Rag
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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Cheerful Literature Man Real Unexpected Weak Young
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
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Charm Charmed Charming Cheerful Eglantine Herself People
Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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Convention Decency Fog Hypocrisy Romance Shadow
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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Betrayal Betrayed Hold Person Position Rule Superior Two
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
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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Envy Merit Object Deserving Rather Recognition Rule
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
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Know Letter Read Until Woman
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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Black Look Preverse Suit Well Woman
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
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
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Delightful Gambling Suspense Torture World
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
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
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
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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Amusement Imagination Luxurious Perfection Point Something Theory
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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Great Happiness Ideal Man Thinking Wife Woman
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Already Course Futurist Past Well

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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