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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Evelyn Waugh

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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
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
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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 prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm

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