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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

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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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill

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