Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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