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Evelyn Waugh

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself
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
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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

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