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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Evelyn Waugh

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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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 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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

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