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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Evelyn Waugh

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
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
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
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
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
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
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
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

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