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“Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did not misbehave. The rest he left to the parents, and did not speculate how much the parents were leaving to him. Amid mutual compliments the boys passed out into a public school, healthy but backward, to receive upon undefended flesh the first blows of the world.”

School Education Maurice

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“Society is invincible—to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity—nothing that can stop you retreating into splendour and beauty—into the thoughts and beliefs that make the real life—the real you.”

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Book:Where Angels Fear to Tread

Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“...the real thing's money, and all the rest is a dream.”

Book:Howards End Annotated

Source: Howards End Annotated

“To ascend, to stretch a hand up the mountainside until a hand catches it, was the end for which he had been born.”

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Book:Maurice

Source: Maurice

“And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.”

Author:E M Forster