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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.

John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Kingston
John Sinjohn
Problems
Manners
Greatest
Bother
Least
Landscape
Whether
Saving
House
Institutions
Problem
Save
Human
Type
Types
Humans
Worth
Houses

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