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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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 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
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious

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