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

Evelyn Waugh

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
EVELYN WAUGH

Evil Greatness Oneself World
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
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.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
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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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
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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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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

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