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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.

John Galsworthy

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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Around Effect Everything Say
First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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