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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no dou...

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

The French cook we open tins.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was s...

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Life calls the tune, we dance.

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - J...

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One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition;...

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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Five Speeches to P.E.N. Clubs and a Letter

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; ...

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The Forsyte Saga

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through...

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The Forsyte Saga

Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.

The Forsyte Saga

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longin...

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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to ...

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The Forsyte Saga

Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed...

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The White Monkey

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John Galsworthy

Novelist

Born: 1867-08-14

Died: 1933-01-31

John Galsworthy OM (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932.More