Beginnings are always messy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnce admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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