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

Evelyn Waugh

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
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
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
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

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