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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.

Evelyn Waugh

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Advice Fingers Language Yourself
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth 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

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