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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.

John Galsworthy

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
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!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Born Change New Only Out Salvation Stir
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beauty Mean One Other Perhaps Person
Headlines twice the size of the events.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Event Headlines Size Twice
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Even More Nature One Preference Reveal Side Work
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Art Barrier Destroy Energy Form Human Man Really Union Work World
The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bridge Building Demolition Finish House Novel Voyage Writing
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!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bloom Blossom Flower Garden Plant Wild
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
For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Appeared Being Family First Insticny Some Strange Thing Time Unsafe
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!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Around Effect Everything Say
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Give Itself Justice Machine Once Push Roll Some Start
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

Over Politician Rule World
Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Advance Always Law Opinion Public
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Fruitful Love Make Only Soul

Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.

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