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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

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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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son 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
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
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
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word

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