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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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