Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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