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

Evelyn Waugh

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
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
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose Yourself
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young

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