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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

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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
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
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
EVELYN WAUGH

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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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

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