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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

Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble 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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
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
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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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

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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