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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.

John Galsworthy

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Over Politician Rule World
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Fritful Love Make Only Soul
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Courtship Modern Take
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

House Limbo Pass Soul Time
Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Atmosphere Capture Condition Country For Kept People Quote Style Unchanged
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Always Generally Jheardedness Light Made Reason Some Suspicious
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Believe Greatest Person Thing Think World
How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Greatest House Human Institution Landscape Manner Other Problem Save Type Worth
Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Country Driver Fare Hesitation Man Refuse Some Young
We are not living in a private world of our own.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Living Our Own Private World
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Amount Make Prepare Sacrifice Sentiment Value
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Become Eye Mouth One
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Action Can Do Done Else Man Nothing Sum
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Always Hear Last Talk

Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.

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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.

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