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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Evelyn Waugh

O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study 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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