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!
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 biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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