Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
E. M. FORSTERMoney pads the edges of things.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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