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O God, make me good, but not yet.

Evelyn Waugh

Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
EVELYN WAUGH

Demand Man Room
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
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
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
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
O God, make me good, but not yet.
EVELYN WAUGH

Character God Goodness One Liner
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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 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
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
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, make me good, but not yet.

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