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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
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
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

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