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I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. Forster
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E. M. Forster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 7
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Edward Morgan Forster
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.
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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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It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
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