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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

John Galsworthy

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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
Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Country Driver Fare Hesitation Man Refuse Some Young
Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Courtship Modern Take
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Affected Beaty Doubt Look Many Nothing People Quite Straight Through
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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Breathe Day Ineftable Man Painful Spring Such Sweetness Yeaning
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
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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Argument Believe Dreadful Enough Familiar Maske None War
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Better Builder Curb Honorably Life Prejudice Seek Speak Truth
The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Anything Bicycle Country Influence Manner Moral More Movement Person Princess Responsible Second Since Under
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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Adaptability Best Condition Control Create Develop Fact Invention Men Own Quite Unable
The French cook; we open tins.
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Cook Country Open Outer
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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Atmosphere Capture Condition Country For Kept People Quote Style Unchanged
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Built Consequences Mariage Society
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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Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Come Lancem Rst Lay Let Sky Under Wild Windmill
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Give Itself Justice Machine Once Push Roll Some Start
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Become Eye Mouth One
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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Become Beyond Dog Muteness Peace Play So Torture Trick Utterly Value Word
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Age Death Limit Love No
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Stang Vigorous
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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House Limbo Pass Soul Time
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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Age Change New Nottle Old Season Stir Wine
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Another Each Stone Edifice Law Majestic Rest Shellter Us
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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Greatest House Human Institution Landscape Manner Other Problem Save Type Worth

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