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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.

John Galsworthy

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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Greatest House Human Institution Landscape Manner Other Problem Save Type Worth
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Live Man So Think Write
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Over Politician Rule World
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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End Itself Mean Wealth
Beginnings are always messy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Always Beginning Messy
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Age Change New Nottle Old Season Stir Wine
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cigar Smoke Compose Love Men Shall Soul Texture
Those 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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Adore Dog Eyes Feel Moment Precious Really Think
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Do Future Have Oen Think
And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Better Builder Curb Honorably Life Prejudice Seek Speak Truth
The French cook; we open tins.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cook Country Open Outer
Life calls the tune, we dance.
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All Dance Life Tune We
For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Direct Distance Idealism Increase One Problem Proportion
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Courtship Modern Take

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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