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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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 always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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