An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it…

E. M. Forster
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An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable. ✨ What I Believe. Essay by E. M. Forster, The Nation, July 16, 1938.
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An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable. ✨ What I Believe. Essay by E. M. Forster, The Nation, July 16, 1938.

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