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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWestminster, 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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.
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Love is not a 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.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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