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

Evelyn Waugh

You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself

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