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We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble 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
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
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
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
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
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel

We possess nothing certainly except the past.

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