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

Evelyn Waugh

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
EVELYN WAUGH

Advice Fingers Language Yourself
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
EVELYN WAUGH

Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road

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