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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.

John Galsworthy

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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Beginning Ending Human
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
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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Another Cement Continual Everlasting Feel However Human Life Onself Real Refreshment Replacement Unconscious
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Amount Make Prepare Sacrifice Sentiment Value
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Beginning End Human Undertaking Untidy
Beginnings are always messy.
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Always Beginning Messy
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Argument Believe Dreadful Enough Familiar Maske None War
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
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
Life calls the tune, we dance.
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All Dance Life Tune We
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!
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Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Always Hear Last Talk
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
The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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Both Same Clothes Degree Demonstration Exactly High Prevent Same Voice
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fruitful Love Make Only Soul

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