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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Evelyn Waugh

News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGH

Care Media News Reading
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
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
EVELYN WAUGH

Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study 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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
EVELYN WAUGH

Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

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