I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
EVELYN WAUGHAesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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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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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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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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