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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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Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

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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.

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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, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.

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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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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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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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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

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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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