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Evelyn Waugh Quote - I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

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

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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth 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
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
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
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
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill

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