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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

Ada Leverson

Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSON

Black Look Preverse Suit Well Woman
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Crisis Dense Domestic Fatally Tragedy Usually Wrong
Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
ADA LEVERSON

Appearance Extremely Merit Modesty People
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Amusement Imagination Luxurious Perfection Point Something Theory
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
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
ADA LEVERSON

Happy May People Remain Remember Talking
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
ADA LEVERSON

Intuition Man Perhaps Quality Seen Women
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSON

Know Letter Understand Wish Woman Writing
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

Envy Merit Object Deserving Rather Recognition Rule
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
ADA LEVERSON

Infidelity Morning Night Noon Reson Suspect
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
It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
ADA LEVERSON

Always Failure One Requirement Something Wish
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSON

Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSON

Attention Most People Seen Through Visible Vision
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
Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
ADA LEVERSON

Beautiful Book Gray Meandering Oscar Poem Text Tiniest

Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

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