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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.

John Galsworthy

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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
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Dawn Fertilise Forgive Indulge Little Power
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.
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Enough Good Love Other People Some Something
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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Been Beyond Death Kill Love Measure Nearby Without
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Footstep Grass Soundless Summer

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