Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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