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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.

Evelyn Waugh

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
EVELYN WAUGH

Advice Fingers Language Yourself
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Lost Money Philosophy Player
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
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
EVELYN WAUGH

Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
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
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGH

Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
EVELYN WAUGH

Demand Man Room
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
EVELYN WAUGH

Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.

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