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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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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.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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