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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.

Ada Leverson

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
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
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
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
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
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
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
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
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Delightful Gambling Suspense Torture World
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
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
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
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
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
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
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

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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