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O God, make me good, but not yet.

Evelyn Waugh

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
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
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
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
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm

O God, make me good, but not yet.

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