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

Evelyn Waugh

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
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
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
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
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

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

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