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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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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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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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