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

Evelyn Waugh

We possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGH

Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
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
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner

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