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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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