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

Evelyn Waugh

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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
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.
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Advice Fingers Language 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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove 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
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth

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

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