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Evelyn Waugh

I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room

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