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John Galsworthy (August 14, 1867 January 31, 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..

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

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

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

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

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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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"Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!For who would live so petty and unblestThat dare not tilt at something ere he die;Rather than, screened by safe majority,Preserve his little life to little end,And never raise a rebel cry!"

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