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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
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Kingston
John Sinjohn
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Save
Human
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Types
Humans
Worth
Houses
Problems
Manners
Greatest
Bother
Least
Landscape
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House
Institutions
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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