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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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 bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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