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

Evelyn Waugh

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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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 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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident

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