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.
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. - Ada Leverson
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
- Ada Leverson
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 W… - Ada Leverson
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 W…
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
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.
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. - Ada Leverson
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.
It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure. - Ada Leverson
It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men. - Ada Leverson
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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! … - Ada Leverson
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! …
Everything comes to the man who won't wait. - Ada Leverson
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. - Ada Leverson
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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