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

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
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
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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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
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
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
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World

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

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