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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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 biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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