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

Evelyn Waugh

If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself
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
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
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 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

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

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