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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.

Evelyn Waugh

You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
EVELYN WAUGH

Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
EVELYN WAUGH

Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove 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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGH

Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGH

Care Media News Reading
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.

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