The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEarly morning does not mince words.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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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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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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