Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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