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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

Evelyn Waugh

You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
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
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
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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
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

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

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