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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.

Ada Leverson

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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Great Happiness Ideal Man Thinking Wife Woman
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Know Letter Understand Wish Woman Writing
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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Betrayal Betrayed Hold Person Position Rule Superior Two
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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Banging Depressing Drum Man Real Shrieking Young
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Delightful Gambling Suspense Torture World
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
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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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.
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Archbishop Butler Country English Household Should
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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Cheerful Literature Man Real Unexpected Weak Young
When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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Believe Fade Ideal Passion Realize Trust Worship
To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
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Either Man Mean Nice Thing Woman
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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Beautiful Boo Oscar Publish Reading Suggested
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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Beautiful Book Gray Meandering Oscar Poem Text Tiniest
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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Crisis Dense Domestic Fatally Tragedy Usually Wrong
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only
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Credited Desert Intuition Man Marvellous Often Real
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Know Letter Read Until Woman

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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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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