Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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