The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGHPort 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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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