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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.

Evelyn Waugh

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGH

Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
EVELYN WAUGH

Education Lose Yourself
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
EVELYN WAUGH

Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
EVELYN WAUGH

Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGH

Care Media News Reading
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
EVELYN WAUGH

Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
EVELYN WAUGH

Work Worth
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young

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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