Those 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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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