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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…

Evelyn Waugh

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
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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

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