When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
ADA LEVERSONLooking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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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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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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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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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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