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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.

Evelyn Waugh

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
EVELYN WAUGH

Conversation Goodness Missing 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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
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 trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself

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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