The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. FORSTERI won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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