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

Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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 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
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
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
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.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
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
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
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word

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