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

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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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 possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
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
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand 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
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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
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
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word

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