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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.
Ada Leverson
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Ada Leverson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1862
Born: October 10
Died: 1933
Died: August 30
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London
England
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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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. 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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Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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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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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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You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.
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