The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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