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

Evelyn Waugh

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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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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
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
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself

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

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