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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.

John Galsworthy

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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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