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

Evelyn Waugh

One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
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
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People

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