Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHYUnder 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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