You remember how he would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say, 'It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious'--that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil. - M. Forster Quotes
You remember how he would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say, 'It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious'--that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil. M. Forster
 

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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line. - M. Forster Quotes

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

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 Luck
Some twenty years her senior, he preserved a gift that she supposed herself to have already lost--not youth's creative power, but its self-confidence and optimism. - M. Forster Quotes

Some twenty years her senior, he preserved a gift that she supposed herself to have already lost--not youth's creative power, but its self-confidence and optimism.

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I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up. - M. Forster Quotes

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up.

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 Brains
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's - M. Forster Quotes

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's

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Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life. - M. Forster Quotes

Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.

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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. - M. Forster Quotes

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

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 Books And Reading
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? - M. Forster Quotes

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. - M. Forster Quotes

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

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 Betrayal
How can I know what I think till I see what I say? - M. Forster Quotes

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

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 Thoughts And Thinking
`Can you always tell whether a stranger is your friend?' `Yes.' `Then you are an Oriental.' - M. Forster Quotes

`Can you always tell whether a stranger is your friend?' `Yes.' `Then you are an Oriental.'

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