The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLife calls the tune, we dance.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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