The French cook; we open tins.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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 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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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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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.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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