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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into 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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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
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