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Evelyn Waugh Quote - Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
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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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
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
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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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner

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