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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.

Evelyn Waugh

If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
EVELYN WAUGH

Work Worth
To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGH

Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird

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