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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

I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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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