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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Evelyn Waugh

The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGH

Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
EVELYN WAUGH

Character God Goodness One Liner
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
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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
EVELYN WAUGH

Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself

One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

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