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

Evelyn Waugh

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
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 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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes 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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove 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
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science

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