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

Evelyn Waugh

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son 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
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
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
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
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
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
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

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

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