It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
ADA LEVERSONYou don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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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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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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The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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