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Evelyn Waugh Quote - 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.

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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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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner

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