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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Digestion Empicipation Equality Influence Language Leg Profession Strong Weekend Word
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
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
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
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!
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Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Away Bear Carry Friend Go Hard Least Live Many Quest So Thing Years
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Live Man So Think Write
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
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
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
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.
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Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
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
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Country Describing Enough Get Good Ink Movement Penultimate People Person Physical Place Sensation Spend State Time To
There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Beneath Calm Careless Flash Hidden Moment Nature Ood Ordinary Passion Reveal Spring Violent
We have to love because we love loving.
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Love Loving

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