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• There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. 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

  Wine, Feet, Air

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.658, e-artnow

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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.

  John Galsworthy

  Time, People, Not Good Enough

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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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  Peace, War, Believe

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7659, Delphi Classics

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• 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; 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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  Stars, Spring, Sunset

  John Galsworthy (2001). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

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• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

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  New Beginnings, Self Help, Humans

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.4361, Delphi Classics

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• It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

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  Change, Drinking, Wine

  John Galsworthy “Studies and Essays”, Lulu.com

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• It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.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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  Dog, Eye, Thinking

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• The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, 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

  Book, Men, Squares

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.1149, e-artnow

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• Only love makes fruitful the soul. 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, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.

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  Life, Men, Voice

  John Galsworthy (2015). “Beyond”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

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  World, Politics, Impossible

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3926, Delphi Classics

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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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  Real, Struggle, Atheism

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.2298, e-artnow

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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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  Men, Soul, Texture

  John Galsworthy (2016). “The Forsythe Saga”, p.306, Xist Publishing

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• Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

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  Light, Reason, Made

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3313, Delphi Classics

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• See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

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  Iron, Hot, Danger

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• The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

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  Gossip, Lasts

  John Galsworthy (2016). “Saint's Progress: England Literature”, p.127, 谷月社

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• 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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  Men, Belief, Salvation

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.5823, Delphi Classics

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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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  Live Life, Men, Wish

  Letter to Thomas Hardy, March 27, 1910.

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• 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. 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. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.

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  Perfection, Quality, Fundamentals

  John Galsworthy (2016). “The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature”, p.9, 谷月社

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• 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, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. 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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  Men, Emotional, Hands

  Preface to "Villa Rubein and Other Stories". Book by John Galsworthy, 1923.

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• He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

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  Wish, Might, World

  John Galsworthy (2012). “The Forsyte Saga”, Courier Corporation

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• From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"

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  Dog, Angel, Hands

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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.

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  Lunch, Owing, Modern

  John Galsworthy (2016). “Swan Song: England Literature”, p.51, 谷月社

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• Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

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  Memories, Deeds, Corpses

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.2703, Delphi Classics

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