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

Evelyn Waugh

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion 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
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship

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