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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

John Galsworthy

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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
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Change Matter Men Moral Remain
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Action Can Do Done Else Man Nothing Sum
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
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Become Eye Mouth One
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Dawn Fertilise Forgive Indulge Little Power
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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Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
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
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Another Each Stone Edifice Law Majestic Rest Shellter Us
Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Advance Always Law Opinion Public
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
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
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
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
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
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

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