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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Adore Dog Eyes Feel Moment Precious Really Think
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.
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Affected Beaty Doubt Look Many Nothing People Quite Straight Through
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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Added Express Familiar Individually Itself Perfection Resentful Retirement Something Style
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Dismounted End Man September South Square Tax Youg
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Beginning End Human Undertaking Untidy
Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Armour Burnish Danger Fundamental Indespensible Individual Premotion Quality Scented Society
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Around Effect Everything Say
It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Another Cement Continual Everlasting Feel However Human Life Onself Real Refreshment Replacement Unconscious
A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Become Faith Man Modern Only Possible
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
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Believe Circle Creed Enwrap Hand Humanism Men Mystery Own
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.
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Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
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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Brief Dead Future Life Longer Nearby Real Religion Something Struggle Take Place
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cigar Smoke Compose Love Men Shall Soul Texture
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
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
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
We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Living Our Own Private World
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Dawn Fertilise Forgive Indulge Little Power
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Aspiration Distance Drink One Problem Proportion Wine
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
Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

End Itself Mean Wealth
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
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
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Live Man So Think Write

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