“Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.”

—  E.M. Forster , book Howards End

Ch. 19 http://books.google.com/books?id=G7xfuc7lWvMC&q=%22Personal+relations+are+the+important+thing+for+ever+and+ever+and+not+this+outer+life+of+telegrams+and+anger%22&pg=PA199#v=onepage
Howards End (1910)

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English novelist 1879–1970

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