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

Evelyn Waugh

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
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.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
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
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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