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

Evelyn Waugh

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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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
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
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth

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