Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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