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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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.
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Conversation Goodness Missing 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
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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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
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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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

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