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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Evelyn Waugh

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
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
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
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
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People

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