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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
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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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science

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