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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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