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Evelyn Waugh

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
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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
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
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 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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession

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