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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.

John Galsworthy

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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Footstep Grass Soundless Summer
Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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
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.
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Over Politician Rule World
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Admit Basis Destroy Human Inflict Once Right Society Suffer Unnecessary
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
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 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
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
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Aspiration Distance Drink One Problem Proportion Wine
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
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
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

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