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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Evelyn Waugh

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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

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