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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.

John Galsworthy

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
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Against Blue Dark Flame Guardian Moomin Passionate Peak Snowy Treemstand
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
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
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Adaptability Best Condition Control Create Develop Fact Invention Men Own Quite Unable
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
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Honestly Jewel Speech Through World Written
One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Even More Nature One Preference Reveal Side Work
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Enough Good Love Other People Some Something
It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Age Change New Nottle Old Season Stir Wine
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
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Admit Basis Destroy Human Inflict Once Right Society Suffer Unnecessary
Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Advance Always Law Opinion Public
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Do Future Have Oen Think
We are not living in a private world of our own.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Living Our Own Private World
Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Come Lancem Rst Lay Let Sky Under Wild Windmill

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.

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