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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.

John Galsworthy

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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
How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Greatest House Human Institution Landscape Manner Other Problem Save Type Worth
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Direct Distance Idealism Increase One Problem Proportion
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!
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Born Change New Only Out Salvation Stir
The French cook; we open tins.
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Cook Country Open Outer
It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Absolutely Always Anyone Anything Consider Go Hurt More Necessary Person While Worth
We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Living Our Own Private World
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Dompting Itch Ourselves Outside Previous Shut
We have to love because we love loving.
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Love Loving
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
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
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
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
He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Beauty Get Love might never Wish World
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
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

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