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!
ADA LEVERSONSince 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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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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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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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