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

Evelyn Waugh

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
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
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking

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