Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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