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" One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. "
E. M. Forster
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" I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. "
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" The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. "
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" I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. "
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" The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. "
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" 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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" Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. "
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" For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. "
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" Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. "
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" America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. "
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" Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. "
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" We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. "
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" Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. "
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" Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. "
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" Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. "
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" I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. "
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" The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. "
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" The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. "
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" What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. "
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" Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. "
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" Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. "
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