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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

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing

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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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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