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

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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Amount Make Prepare Sacrifice Sentiment Value
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Become Beyond Dog Muteness Peace Play So Torture Trick Utterly Value Word
Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Born Flower Hot Hour House Love Night Planet Seed Sprung Sunshine Well Wild
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dawn Fertilise Forgive Indulge Little Power
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Live Man So Think Write
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Always Hear Last Talk
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Age Death Limit Love No
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Do Future Have Oen Think
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
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Case Degree Emotion Every Kind Known Precious Same Uplift
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beneath Calm Careless Flash Hidden Moment Nature Ood Ordinary Passion Reveal Spring Violent
It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Another Cement Continual Everlasting Feel However Human Life Onself Real Refreshment Replacement Unconscious
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Art Away Enfranchisement Itch Minute Profound Relaxation Secret Stolen
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position

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