The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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