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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

Evelyn Waugh

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
EVELYN WAUGH

Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
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
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
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’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
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
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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

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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