Beginnings are always messy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDanger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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 to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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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`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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