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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Evelyn Waugh

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
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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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly

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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