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

Evelyn Waugh

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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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

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