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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

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
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
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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 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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without 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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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