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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

Ada Leverson

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
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
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Delightful Gambling Suspense Torture World
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSON

Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
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.
ADA LEVERSON

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
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
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
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
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
ADA LEVERSON

Charm Charmed Charming Cheerful Eglantine Herself People
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
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
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
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 LEVERSON

Cessation Joy Pain Passive Satisfaction

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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