Early morning does not mince words.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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