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

Evelyn Waugh

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
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
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand 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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
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
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War

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

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