As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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