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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

I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
EVELYN WAUGH

Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
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
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
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.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
EVELYN WAUGH

Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side

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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