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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

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
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom

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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