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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.

— John Galsworthy A Bit O' Love (1915)

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

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

Swan Song (1928)

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

Art is the great and universal refreshment. For Art is never dogmatic; holds no brief for itself; you may take it, or you may leave it.

Vague Thoughts On Art (1911)

I don't know much about morality and that, but there is this: It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

In Chancery (1920)

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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