It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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