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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Evelyn Waugh

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word

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