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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.

John Galsworthy

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
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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Atmosphere Capture Condition Country For Kept People Quote Style Unchanged
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Corpse Dead Deed From Heap Leave Memory Sense So Under Vague
The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bridge Building Demolition Finish House Novel Voyage Writing
He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beauty Get Love might never Wish World
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Breathe Day Ineftable Man Painful Spring Such Sweetness Yeaning
It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Enough Good Love Other People Some Something
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

End Itself Mean Wealth
Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Honestly Jewel Speech Through World Written
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Become Beyond Dog Muteness Peace Play So Torture Trick Utterly Value Word
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Adaptability Best Condition Control Create Develop Fact Invention Men Own Quite Unable
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Fritful Love Make Only Soul
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Over Politician Rule World
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Anything Bicycle Country Influence Manner Moral More Movement Person Princess Responsible Second Since Under

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