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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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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
The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Bridge Building Demolition Finish House Novel Voyage Writing
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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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Adaptability Best Condition Control Create Develop Fact Invention Men Own Quite Unable
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Argument Believe Dreadful Enough Familiar Maske None War
Beginnings are always messy.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Living Our Own Private World
It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Stang Vigorous
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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Age Death Limit Love No
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Advance Always Law Opinion Public
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Always Hear Last Talk
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Early Mince Morning Soes Word
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
Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Around Effect Everything Say
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
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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Dompting Itch Ourselves Outside Previous Shut

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