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

Evelyn Waugh

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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself

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