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

Evelyn Waugh

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
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
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
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
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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

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