Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSONPeople were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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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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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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