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 LEVERSONA morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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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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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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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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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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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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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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