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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
Ada Leverson
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Ada Leverson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1862
Born: October 10
Died: 1933
Died: August 30
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets he should publish a book all margin full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
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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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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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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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It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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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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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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You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
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