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

Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
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
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose Yourself
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young

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