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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.

John Galsworthy

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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
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Beauty Complete Instinct Love Nothing One Really Satisfy Sex Union
Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Event Headlines Size Twice
It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Another Cement Continual Everlasting Feel However Human Life Onself Real Refreshment Replacement Unconscious
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
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Honestly Jewel Speech Through World Written
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Beautiful Horse Impression Nothing Quite Still Thoroughbred Under
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
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
Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Advance Always Law Opinion Public
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
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Always Hear Last Talk
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 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
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
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
Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Built Consequences Mariage Society
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
A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Bloom Blossom Flower Garden Plant Wild
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’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Bring Count Fortitude Into Life
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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Achievement Deprive First Fuse Get Hand Melowness One Other Seldom Upper
A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Become Faith Man Modern Only Possible
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
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

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