Quote by E.M. Forster
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does ap

I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. – E.M. Forster

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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. – E.M. Forster

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Books
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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forster

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Astrology
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. – E.M. Forster

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Other Quotes from
Christmas
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When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Christmas

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas. – Frank Butler

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Christmas

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians. – Lionel Blue

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Christmas

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. – Burton Hillis

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Christmas

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