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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.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself
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 regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
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
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
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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

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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