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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!

Ada Leverson

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.
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Cessation Joy Pain Passive Satisfaction
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
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
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
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
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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Extent Followed People Proportion Treasure Value
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Charm Charmed Charming Cheerful Eglantine Herself People
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Know Letter Read Until Woman
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
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 a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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Believe Fade Ideal Passion Realize Trust Worship
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
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
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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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
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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Happy May People Remain Remember Talking

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