an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSONThe 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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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
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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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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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