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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
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
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
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
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident

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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