The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGHI think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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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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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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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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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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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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