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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Evelyn Waugh

I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
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 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
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading

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