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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
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Kingston
John Sinjohn
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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