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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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
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
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth

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