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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship

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