For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIdealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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