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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

If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy 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
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
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
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
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
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’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
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 know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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

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