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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

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