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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

John Galsworthy

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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!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Adaptability Best Condition Control Create Develop Fact Invention Men Own Quite Unable
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.
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Even More Nature One Preference Reveal Side Work
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
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
Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Built Consequences Mariage Society
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 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
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
Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Event Headlines Size Twice
Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Born Flower Hot Hour House Love Night Planet Seed Sprung Sunshine Well Wild
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Armour Burnish Danger Fundamental Indespensible Individual Premotion Quality Scented Society
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Direct Distance Idealism Increase One Problem Proportion
And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Better Builder Curb Honorably Life Prejudice Seek Speak Truth
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Stang Vigorous
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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Country Driver Fare Hesitation Man Refuse Some Young

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