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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Evelyn Waugh

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
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
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
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

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