For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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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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