Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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!
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into 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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Beginnings are always messy.
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