Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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