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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.

Evelyn Waugh

Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
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
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
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves

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