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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

Evelyn Waugh

Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop 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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
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
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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 politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science

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