"She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability."

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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.

— Ada Leverson