Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing 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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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