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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Evelyn Waugh

You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
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
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
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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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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

I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

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