Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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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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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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