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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

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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
EVELYN WAUGH

Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
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
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 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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
EVELYN WAUGH

Books Feeling Open Thrill

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