It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts. ✨ E. M…

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It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts. ✨ E. M. Forster (2013). Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated), p.258, Delphi Classics
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