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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Evelyn Waugh

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
EVELYN WAUGH

Evil Greatness Oneself World

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

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