To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
("Howards End")
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It is so difficult-at least, I find it difficult-to understand people who speak the truth.
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Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.
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She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead and alien; here she was caught in the shawl of night together with earth and all the other stars.
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She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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