And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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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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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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