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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.

Ada Leverson

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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Envy Merit Object Deserving Rather Recognition Rule
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
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Infidelity Morning Night Noon Reson Suspect
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
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Eye Feet Look Man Optimist Person Pessimist
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.
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Extent Followed People Proportion Treasure Value
It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Always Failure One Requirement Something Wish
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
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 Joy Pain Passive Satisfaction
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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Attention Most People Seen Through Visible Vision
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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Black Look Preverse Suit Well Woman
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
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
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
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Already Course Futurist Past Well
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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Depresses Impression Naturally Ought Person Since

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