The French cook; we open tins.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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