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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Evelyn Waugh

To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
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
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
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
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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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Advice Fingers Language Yourself

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