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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Evelyn Waugh

If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
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
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

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