Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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