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

Evelyn Waugh

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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
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
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
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People

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

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