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

Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
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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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
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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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
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
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
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
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

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

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