Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHYthe biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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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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Not 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.
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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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