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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.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGH

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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