Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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