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

Evelyn Waugh

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
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
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom

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

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