Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
ADA LEVERSONWomen are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so 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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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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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 would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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