Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERMistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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