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

Evelyn Waugh

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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
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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 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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
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

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