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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.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
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
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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

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