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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.

Evelyn Waugh

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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
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
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
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

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