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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.

Evelyn Waugh

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  O God, make me good, but not yet.

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  Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.

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  Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

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  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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  You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

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  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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  I put the words down and push them a bit.

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  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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  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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  All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.

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  To understand all is to forgive all.

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  News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.

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  Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

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  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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  When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

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