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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
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
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
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
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing

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