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

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill

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