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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.

Ada Leverson

The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
ADA LEVERSON

Already Course Futurist Past Well
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSON

Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
ADA LEVERSON

Delightful Gambling Suspense Torture World
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Extent Followed People Proportion Treasure Value
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Depresses Impression Naturally Ought Person Since
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSON

Know Letter Understand Wish Woman Writing
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
ADA LEVERSON

Charm Charmed Charming Cheerful Eglantine Herself People
When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
ADA LEVERSON

Believe Fade Ideal Passion Realize Trust Worship
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
ADA LEVERSON

Children Doll Elaborate Giving Happier Pie Rag
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 LEVERSON

Cessation Joy Pain Passive Satisfaction
Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
ADA LEVERSON

Convention Decency Fog Hypocrisy Romance Shadow
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!
ADA LEVERSON

Great Happiness Ideal Man Thinking Wife 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.
ADA LEVERSON

Causes Curious Domestic Infectious Life Propensity Suffering
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
ADA LEVERSON

Archbishop Butler Country English Household Should
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
ADA LEVERSON

Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
ADA LEVERSON

Cheerful Literature Man Real Unexpected Weak Young

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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