Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYNot 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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