One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTERWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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