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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.

Evelyn Waugh

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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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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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