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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Ada Leverson

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
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSON

Eye Feet Look Man Optimist Person Pessimist
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 LEVERSON

Great Happiness Ideal Man Thinking Wife Woman
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Depresses Impression Naturally Ought Person Since
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
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
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Know Letter Read Until Woman
To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
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Either Man Mean Nice Thing Woman
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 Home Husband Passion
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Already Course Futurist Past Well
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Know Letter Understand Wish Woman Writing
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
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Infidelity Morning Night Noon Reson Suspect
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Cod Serve

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