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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

John Galsworthy

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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Around Effect Everything Say
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Action Can Do Done Else Man Nothing Sum
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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Against Blue Dark Flame Guardian Moomin Passionate Peak Snowy Treemstand
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
Beginnings are always messy.
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Always Beginning Messy
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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Case Degree Emotion Every Kind Known Precious Same Uplift
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
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 moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Beneath Calm Careless Flash Hidden Moment Nature Ood Ordinary Passion Reveal Spring Violent
Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Event Headlines Size Twice
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
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Change Matter Men Moral Remain
The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Anything Bicycle Country Influence Manner Moral More Movement Person Princess Responsible Second Since Under
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 value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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