The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Early morning does not mince words.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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