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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
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
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
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

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