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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIf you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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