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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.

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.
ADA LEVERSON

Envy Merit Object Deserving Rather Recognition Rule
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
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Intuition Man Perhaps Quality Seen Women
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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Cheerful Literature Man Real Unexpected Weak Young
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Know Letter Read Until Woman
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Know Letter Understand Wish Woman Writing
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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Children Doll Elaborate Giving Happier Pie Rag
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
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
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 Intuition Man Marvellous Often Real
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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Appearance Extremely Merit Modesty People
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
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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Causes Curious Domestic Infectious Life Propensity Suffering
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Infidelity Morning Night Noon Reson Suspect
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 Tragedy Usually Wrong

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