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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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
Ada Esther Leverson
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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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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 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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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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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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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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She could carry off anything and some people said that she did.
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