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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

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust 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
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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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
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
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
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road

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

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