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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

Evelyn Waugh

One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

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