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O God, make me good, but not yet.

Evelyn Waugh

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
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
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
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
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
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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word

O God, make me good, but not yet.

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