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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
In our father's house are many mansions, they taught, and there alone will the incompatible multitudes of mankind be welcomed and soothed. Not one shall be turned away by the servants on that verandah, be he black or white, not one shall be kept standing who approaches with a loving heart. And why should the divine hospitality cease here? Consider, with all reverence, the monkeys. May there not be a mansion for the monkeys also?
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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
You mustn't put off what you think right," said Hamidullah. "That is why India is in such a plight, because we put off things.
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Are Indians cowards? No, but they are bad starters and occasionally jib. Fear is everywhere; the British Raj rests on it.
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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere.
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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person.
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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
I don't think I understand people very well. I only know whether I like or dislike them.
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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence. The English take and do nothing. I admire them.
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It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.
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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
No doubt his wife and children were beautiful too, for people usually get what they already possess.
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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
He mourned his wife more sincerely because he mourned her seldom.
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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
She strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility.
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E.M. Forster _ A Passage to India
The aims of battle and the fruits of conquest are never the same;
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