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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
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’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
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
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
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
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
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
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble 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

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

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