One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
JOHN GALSWORTHYthe biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Not 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.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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