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.
ADA LEVERSONA butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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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!
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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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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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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