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

Evelyn Waugh

I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
EVELYN WAUGH

Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin

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