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JOHN GALSWORTHYThose are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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