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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.

John Galsworthy

The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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Both Same Clothes Degree Demonstration Exactly High Prevent Same Voice
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Dismounted End Man September South Square Tax Youg
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Always Hear Last Talk
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
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
Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Atmosphere Capture Condition Country For Kept People Quote Style Unchanged
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
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Amount Make Prepare Sacrifice Sentiment Value
A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Bloom Blossom Flower Garden Plant Wild
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Do Future Have Oen Think
Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Country Driver Fare Hesitation Man Refuse Some Young
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
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
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.
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Even More Nature One Preference Reveal Side Work
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
Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Advance Always Law Opinion Public

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