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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.

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.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
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
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
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

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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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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