E. M. Forster

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• A humanist has four leading characteristics — curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951), “George and Gide”

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• Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

  A Passage to India (1924), Ch. 3In context

  • Time

• Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

  Commonplace Book (1985), p. 11

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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