Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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