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

Evelyn Waugh

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
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
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young

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

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