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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.

John Galsworthy

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Born Flower Hot Hour House Love Night Planet Seed Sprung Sunshine Well Wild
We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Living Our Own Private World
The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Anything Bicycle Country Influence Manner Moral More Movement Person Princess Responsible Second Since Under
The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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Both Same Clothes Degree Demonstration Exactly High Prevent Same Voice
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Always Hear Last Talk
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.
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Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Adaptability Best Condition Control Create Develop Fact Invention Men Own Quite Unable
And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Art Away Enfranchisement Itch Minute Profound Relaxation Secret Stolen
Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Beauty Mean One Other Perhaps Person
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Honestly Jewel Speech Through World Written
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Brief Dead Future Life Longer Nearby Real Religion Something Struggle Take Place
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.
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Atmosphere Capture Condition Country For Kept People Quote Style Unchanged
Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Adore Dog Eyes Feel Moment Precious Really Think
The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Bridge Building Demolition Finish House Novel Voyage Writing
Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Digestion Empicipation Equality Influence Language Leg Profession Strong Weekend Word
Beginnings are always messy.
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Always Beginning Messy

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