To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
JOHN GALSWORTHYCome! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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