Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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