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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
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 prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

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