"Nobody can spoil a life, my dear. That's nonsense. Things happen, but we bob up."
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The Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
"Society is built on marriage," came from between her father's close lips; "marriage and its consequences."
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The Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
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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The Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
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 Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
But dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision . . .
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The Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
"Strange life a dog's," said Jolyon suddenly: "The only four-footer with rudiments of altruism and a sense of God!"
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The Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
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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The Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
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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The Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
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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The Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
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 Forsyte Saga by
John Galsworthy
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