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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

John Galsworthy

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

Always Hear Last Talk
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Breathe Day Ineftable Man Painful Spring Such Sweetness Yeaning
We are not living in a private world of our own.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Living Our Own Private 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!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

End Itself Mean Wealth
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Believe Greatest Person Thing Think World
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
First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Achievement Deprive First Fuse Get Hand Melowness One Other Seldom Upper
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Over Politician Rule World
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
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beginning End Human Undertaking Untidy
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Live Man So Think Write
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Stang Vigorous
Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Footstep Grass Soundless Summer
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

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