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

Evelyn Waugh

Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
EVELYN WAUGH

Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value

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