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.
ADA LEVERSONLooking 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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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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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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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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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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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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