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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

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
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
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
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
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
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
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose Yourself
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom

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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