Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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