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. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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