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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

E. M. Forster

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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Buy Evil Look Money One Rather Tempt Thing
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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Away Certainty Country Men People Person Run Shall
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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Beautiful Embankment Fastening Hill Opposite Pinch Pleasant Road Tree Unfamiliar Wide
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Better Interest Our People Prsonmapssion
There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Great Long Money never Risk
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Else Hang Information Itself Nothing Poem Point Something Together True
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Kingdom Music World
It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Hurt Mean People
Money pads the edges of things.
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Edge Money Pad Thing
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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Beard Distance Ear Gentlemen Kind More Old Say Spoken Sympathize Value
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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Attempt Can Difficult Easy Entice Only Relation
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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Again Happen Nearly Nothing Period Pleasure Pretend Register Thrill
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Understand Unless Remember
You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Confuse Important Impressive
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Crate Historian Novelist Record
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Happen Happiness Nbox Turn

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

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