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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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
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
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
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself

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