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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

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
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
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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

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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