Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only writt…

E. M. Forster
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Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority. ✨ E. M. Forster (2013). Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated), p.267, Delphi Classics
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