Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
ADA LEVERSONThou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
ADA LEVERSONYou don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSONWomen are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSONMost people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSONPeople were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
ADA LEVERSONIt’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
ADA LEVERSONThere 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.
ADA LEVERSONShe could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
ADA LEVERSONMost 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 LEVERSONThe Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
ADA LEVERSONShe suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
ADA LEVERSONEverything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSONMany 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 LEVERSONLooking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
ADA LEVERSONWhen 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
ADA LEVERSONenvy, 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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