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

Evelyn Waugh

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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove 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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
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
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself

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

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