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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

Evelyn Waugh

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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 should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

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