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> [“To every man of great age - to Sir Wlater Bentham himself - the idea of suicide has once at least been present in the ante-room of his soul; on the threshold, waiting to enter, held out from the inmost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/to-every-man-of-great-age-to-sir-wlater-bentham-himself-the-idea-of/)

[John Galsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-galsworthy/)

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## More by John Galsworthy

> [“She stood and tried hard not to believe in God. It seemed mean and petty to have more belief in God when things were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/she-stood-and-tried-hard-not-to-believe-in-god-it-seemed-mean-and/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/love-is-no-hot-house-flower-but-a-wild-plant-born-of-a-wet-night-born/)

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> [ “Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice \[1910\], act II” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/justice-is-a-machine-that-when-someone-has-once-given-it-the-starting/)

[John Galsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-galsworthy/)

> [By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/by-the-cigars-they-smoke-and-the-composers-they-love-ye-shall-know/)

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> [Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/memory-heaps-dead-leaves-on-corpse-like-deeds-from-under-which-they/)

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> [“That tendency...to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/that-tendency-to-lie-awake-between-the-hours-of-two-and-four-when-the/)

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> [“Here’s a sentence in a book I’m reading: ‘We belong, of course, to a generation that’s seen through things, seen how futile everything is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/here-s-a-sentence-in-a-book-i-m-reading-we-belong-of-course-to-a/)

[John Galsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-galsworthy/)

> [“James and the other eight children of 'Superior Dosset,' of whom there are still five alive, may be said to have represented Victorian England,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/james-and-the-other-eight-children-of-superior-dosset-of-whom-there/)

[John Galsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-galsworthy/)

> [Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/justice-is-a-machine-that-when-some-one-has-once-given-it-the/)

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> [Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/love-beyond-measure-beyond-death-it-nearly-kills-but-one-wouldn-t/)

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> [Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/society-is-built-on-marriage-marriage-and-its-consequences/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/we-are-all-familiar-with-the-argument-make-war-dreadful-enough-and/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/when-man-evolved-pity-he-did-a-queer-thing-deprived-himself-of-the/)

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> [Public opinion's always in advance of the law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/public-opinion-s-always-in-advance-of-the-law/)

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> [“An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/an-epoch-which-had-gilded-individual-liberty-so-that-if-a-man-had/)

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