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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
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
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
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

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