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

Evelyn Waugh

For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
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
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
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
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.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong

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