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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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Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson, a British writer born on October 10, 1862, and died on August 30, 1933, is known for her unique sense of humor and profound insight into Victorian era life. more

“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.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Said Real Young Spirit Ought Contrary Impression Young Man Being Real Depressing Cheerful Trumpets Noisy Tin Banging

Book:Love at Second Sight

Source: Love at Second Sight

“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.”

Men Mean Names Nice

Book:Love at Second Sight

Source: Love at Second Sight

“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.”

Men Want Real Use Seems Would Be Too Much Tragedy Crisis Instinct Intuition Occasions Desert Feminine Wrong Things Dense Marvellous Triviality

Book:The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight

Source: The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight

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