It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYJustice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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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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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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It 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.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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