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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

Evelyn Waugh

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
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust 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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
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
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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