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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
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
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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