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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

John Galsworthy

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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The 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 French cook; we open tins.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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