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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.
Ada Leverson
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Ada Leverson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1862
Born: October 10
Died: 1933
Died: August 30
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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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She could carry off anything and some people said that she did.
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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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You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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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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It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
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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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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, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.
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To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
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Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
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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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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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