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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

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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Anything Bicycle Country Influence Manner Moral More Movement Person Princess Responsible Second Since Under
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Biggest Change Done Impossibility Life Tragedy Utter
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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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
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
It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Bring Count Fortitude Into Life
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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Become Beyond Dog Muteness Peace Play So Torture Trick Utterly Value Word
The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Bridge Building Demolition Finish House Novel Voyage Writing
How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Greatest House Human Institution Landscape Manner Other Problem Save Type Worth
Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Built Consequences Mariage Society
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
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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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.
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End Itself Mean Wealth
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
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Beauty Get Love might never Wish World
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Cigar Smoke Compose Love Men Shall Soul Texture
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Live Man So Think Write
The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Born Flower Hot Hour House Love Night Planet Seed Sprung Sunshine Well Wild
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Adaptability Best Condition Control Create Develop Fact Invention Men Own Quite Unable
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Dawn Fertilise Forgive Indulge Little Power
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Always Generally Jheardedness Light Made Reason Some Suspicious
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Give Itself Justice Machine Once Push Roll Some Start
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Corpse Dead Deed From Heap Leave Memory Sense So Under Vague

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