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.
EVELYN WAUGHFor in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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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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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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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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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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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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