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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

Evelyn Waugh

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose Yourself
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word

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