John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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…
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge,…
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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…
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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…
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read…
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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