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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.
-E. M. Forster
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Life's Very Difficult And Full Of Surprises.

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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