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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands then he looked up, and my companion said: He's an angel!
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It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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