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

Evelyn Waugh

I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
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
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
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

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