It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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