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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Evelyn Waugh

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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
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
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.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

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