The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGHWords have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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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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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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