For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHYNot 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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