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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Evelyn Waugh

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
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
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
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
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
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’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

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