The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGHYour actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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