To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
EVELYN WAUGHWords have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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