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When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

Ada Leverson
Passion, Worship, Ideals
Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

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.

Ada Leverson
Betrayal, Two, Betrayed
Ada Leverson (2012). “Love's Shadow”, p.265, tredition

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.

Ada Leverson
Husband, Passion, Home
Ada Leverson (2005). “Love at Second Sight”, p.143, 1st World Publishing

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

Ada Leverson
People, Merit, Modesty

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

Ada Leverson
Morning, Night, Infidelity

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

Ada Leverson
Salmon

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

Ada Leverson
Sarcastic, People, Said
Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.42, tredition

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