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

Evelyn Waugh

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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 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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness

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

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

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