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

Evelyn Waugh

The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
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
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness

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

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