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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.

Evelyn Waugh

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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
EVELYN WAUGH

Art Artist Design Strike Value
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGH

Argument Greatness Opinion People

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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