There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
E. M. FORSTERSchool was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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