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

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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
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
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
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
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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Care Media News Reading
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
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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
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 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
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 trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble 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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