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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove 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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
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
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading

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