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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.

John Galsworthy

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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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