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

Evelyn Waugh

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
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.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work

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