Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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