A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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