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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.

Evelyn Waugh

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
EVELYN WAUGH

Evil Greatness Oneself World
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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 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, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
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
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
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 did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
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

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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