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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me—a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

E.M. Forster

E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. "Liberty in England," pt. I (1935), in Abinger Harvest (1936).

Originally an address at the Congrès International des Écrivains.

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