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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 in Literature in 1932.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think.
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
Its not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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