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

Evelyn Waugh

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
EVELYN WAUGH

Education Lose Yourself
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
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
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand

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

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