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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

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
Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
ADA LEVERSON

Appearance Extremely Merit Modesty People
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
ADA LEVERSON

Cheerful Literature Man Real Unexpected Weak Young
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
ADA LEVERSON

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.
ADA LEVERSON

Beautiful Boo Oscar Publish Reading Suggested
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSON

Black Look Preverse Suit Well Woman
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
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
ADA LEVERSON

Banging Depressing Drum Man Real Shrieking Young
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSON

Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
ADA LEVERSON

Believe Fade Ideal Passion Realize Trust Worship
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Happy May People Remain Remember Talking
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
ADA LEVERSON

Already Course Futurist Past Well
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
ADA LEVERSON

Charm Charmed Charming Cheerful Eglantine Herself People
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
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Cod Serve
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

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