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A marvellous speeder-up of Love is War. What might have taken six months, was thus accomplished in three weeks.

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When a man with the constitution of Montague Dartie has exercised self control for months from religious motives, and remains unrewarded, he does not curse God and die, he curses God and lives, to the distress of his family.

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Even grief sobbed itself out in time only Time was good for sorrow--Time who saw the passing of each mood, each emotion in turn Time the layer-to-rest.

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The French cook we open tins.

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Beneath all manner of kindness and consideration for each other--for their good taste, at all events, had never given way--this tragedy of a woman, who wanted to be loved, slowly killing the power of loving her in the man, had gone on year after year.

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There is left in every man something of the primeval love of stalking.

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When one grew old, the whole world was in conspiracy to limit freedom, and for what reason--just to keep the breath in him a little longer. He did not want it at such cost.

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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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. . . Love is no 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. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower and when it blooms outside we call a weed but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild

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. . . May night had fallen soft and warm, enwrapping with its grape-bloom colour and its scents the billion caprices, intrigues, passions, longings, and regrets of men and women.

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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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The Rector of Worsted Skeynes was not tall, and his head had been rendered somewhat bald by thought.

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James had passed through the fire, but he had passed also through the river of years which washes out the fire he had experienced the saddest experience of all--forgetfulness of what it was like to be in love.

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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

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And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

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

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He was frightened by the effect he had produced, and like most men with but little courage, he sought at once to justify himself by bullying.

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He woke at half-past two, an hour which long experience had taught him brings panic intensity to all awkward thoughts. Experience had also taught him that a further waking at the proper hour of eight showed the folly of such panic.

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If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

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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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Hilary was no young person, like his niece or Martin, to whom everything seemed simple nor was he an old person like their grandfather, for whom life had lost its complications.

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She made up her mind to tell them to play loud--there was a lot of music in a cornet, if the man would only put his soul into it.

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Beginnings are always messy.

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