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We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Evelyn Waugh

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose Yourself
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
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

We possess nothing certainly except the past.

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