the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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