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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose 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
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
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
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
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
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
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

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