Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFirst one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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The 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.
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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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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