I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThose 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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