Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
("A Room with a View")
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Oh, hang it all! what's the goodùI mean, the good of living in a room for ever? There one goes on day after day, same old game, same up and down to town, until you forget there is any other game. You ought to see once in a way what's going on outside, if it's only nothing particular after all.E.M. Forster
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. 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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I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
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On can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted.
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