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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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