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

Evelyn Waugh

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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
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
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
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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
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
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
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
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
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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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young

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