Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
E. M. FORSTERI cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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