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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

To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
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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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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 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
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

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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