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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

Evelyn Waugh

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite

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