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

Evelyn Waugh

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
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root 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
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 prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
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
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity

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

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