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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Evelyn Waugh

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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
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
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
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
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
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

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