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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

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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
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Brief Dead Future Life Longer Nearby Real Religion Something Struggle Take Place
To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Beyond Clothes Dislike Everything Men Other Precious Voice
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Always Hear Last Talk
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
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Art Barrier Destroy Energy Form Human Man Really Union Work World
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.
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Against Blue Dark Flame Guardian Moomin Passionate Peak Snowy Treemstand
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Age Death Limit Love No
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Cigar Smoke Compose Love Men Shall Soul Texture
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.
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Beauty Mean One Other Perhaps Person
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Do Future Have Oen Think
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Believe Greatest Person Thing Think World
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
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
Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Advance Always Law Opinion Public
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Become Eye Mouth One
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
Beginnings are always messy.
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Always Beginning Messy
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Always Generally Jheardedness Light Made Reason Some Suspicious
We have to love because we love loving.
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Love Loving
And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Art Away Enfranchisement Itch Minute Profound Relaxation Secret Stolen
For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Appeared Being Family First Insticny Some Strange Thing Time Unsafe
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Change Matter Men Moral Remain
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
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Honestly Jewel Speech Through World Written
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Dompting Itch Ourselves Outside Previous Shut
It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Absolutely Always Anyone Anything Consider Go Hurt More Necessary Person While Worth

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