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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

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Domesticity

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 Marvellous Often Real
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Cod Serve
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 Usually
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.

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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.
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Cessation Passive
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

ADA LEVERSON

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 Real Shrieking
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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Most Seen Through Visible
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.
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Happy May Talking
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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Domesticity
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Infidelity Noon Reson Suspect
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Perhaps Seen
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

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.
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Amusement Luxurious Point Something
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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Gray Meandering Oscar Text Tiniest
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Said
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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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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Boo Oscar Publish Suggested
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Know Wish
Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

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Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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Extremely Merit Modesty

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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