Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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