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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

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
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World

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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