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Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E.M. Forster

Howards End · 1910

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Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.

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Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass… — E.M. Forster

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