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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice 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

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