We are not living in a private world of our own.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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