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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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
E Forster
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The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
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[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.
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Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
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There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.
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Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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They had nothing in common but the English language.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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