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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth

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