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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

John Galsworthy

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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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