E. M. Forster Quotes

I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

E. M. Forster

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  E. M. Forster
  • Age
  • Worry