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

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

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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
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
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
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
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom

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