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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.

John Galsworthy

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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Bloom Blossom Flower Garden Plant Wild
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Do Future Have Oen Think
We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Case Degree Emotion Every Kind Known Precious Same Uplift
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Always Hear Last Talk
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
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Beauty Complete Instinct Love Nothing One Really Satisfy Sex Union

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