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 GALSWORTHYOnce admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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