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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

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Live Man So Think Write
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Fritful Love Make Only Soul
We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Case Degree Emotion Every Kind Known Precious Same Uplift
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Affected Beaty Doubt Look Many Nothing People Quite Straight Through
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Atmosphere Capture Condition Country For Kept People Quote Style Unchanged
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beneath Calm Careless Flash Hidden Moment Nature Ood Ordinary Passion Reveal Spring Violent
To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beyond Clothes Dislike Everything Men Other Precious Voice
Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beauty Mean One Other Perhaps Person
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Become Eye Mouth One
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

House Limbo Pass Soul Time
Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Around Effect Everything Say
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Country Driver Fare Hesitation Man Refuse Some Young
One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Even More Nature One Preference Reveal Side Work
Headlines twice the size of the events.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Event Headlines Size Twice
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Aspiration Distance Drink One Problem Proportion Wine

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.

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