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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

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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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Beautiful Horse Impression Nothing Quite Still Thoroughbred Under
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
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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Away Bear Carry Friend Go Hard Least Live Many Quest So Thing Years
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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Beneath Calm Careless Flash Hidden Moment Nature Ood Ordinary Passion Reveal Spring Violent
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 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.
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Age Change New Nottle Old Season Stir Wine
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Become Eye Mouth One
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Country Describing Enough Get Good Ink Movement Penultimate People Person Physical Place Sensation Spend State Time To
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Believe Greatest Person Thing Think World
Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Around Effect Everything Say
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.
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Breathe Day Ineftable Man Painful Spring Such Sweetness Yeaning
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.
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Beauty Mean One Other Perhaps Person
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!
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Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
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
A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Become Faith Man Modern Only Possible
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
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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Affected Beaty Doubt Look Many Nothing People Quite Straight Through
It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Bring Count Fortitude Into Life
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
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
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
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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Added Express Familiar Individually Itself Perfection Resentful Retirement Something Style
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Live Man So Think Write
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Beginning Ending Human
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Honestly Jewel Speech Through World Written
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Beauty Complete Instinct Love Nothing One Really Satisfy Sex Union

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