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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

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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Appearance Extremely Merit Modesty People
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
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
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
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
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
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
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
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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Causes Curious Domestic Infectious Life Propensity Suffering
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
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
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
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.
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Cessation Joy Pain Passive Satisfaction
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

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