The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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