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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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