“How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.”

—  John Galsworthy

Source: Over the River (1933), Ch. 39

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English novelist and playwright 1867–1933

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