an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSONA 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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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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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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