It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYJustice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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 talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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