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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.
John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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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.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
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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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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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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands then he looked up, and my companion said: He's an angel!
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