A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
JOHN GALSWORTHYTo dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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