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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
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.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself

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