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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.

John Galsworthy

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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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
The French cook; we open tins.
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Cook Country Open Outer
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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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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
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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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