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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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
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
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
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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.

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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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