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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.

Evelyn Waugh

If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing 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
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
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
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
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

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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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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