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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves

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