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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Lost Money Philosophy Player
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion 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
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
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
EVELYN WAUGH

Education Lose Yourself
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

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