“The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.”
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John Galsworthy was born on August 14, 1867 in Kingston Hill, Surrey, England. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1890, but did not practice. He was a writer and actor. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He allegedly declined knighthood but was awarded the O.M. (Order of Merit) in the 1929 King's Birthday Honours List for his services to literature. He died on January 31, 1933 in Grove Lodge, Hampshire, England.
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“The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.”
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“Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.”
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“She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: ‘I wonder which is my lucky star!”
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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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“Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.”
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“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.”
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“Headlines twice the size of the events.”
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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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“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
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