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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 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
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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 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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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

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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