There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Early morning does not mince words.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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