“I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.”
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I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
Edward Carpenter 
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I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.
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My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
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Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
Edward Carpenter
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