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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.

John Galsworthy

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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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