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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.

John Galsworthy

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
We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Case Degree Emotion Every Kind Known Precious Same Uplift
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dompting Itch Ourselves Outside Previous Shut
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Aspiration Distance Drink One Problem Proportion Wine
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beauty Mean One Other Perhaps Person
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Stang Vigorous
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Always Hear Last Talk
It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bring Count Fortitude Into Life
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
He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beauty Get Love might never Wish World
It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Absolutely Always Anyone Anything Consider Go Hurt More Necessary Person While Worth
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

Armour Burnish Danger Fundamental Indespensible Individual Premotion Quality Scented Society
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dismounted End Man September South Square Tax Youg
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beauty Complete Instinct Love Nothing One Really Satisfy Sex Union
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!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest

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