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

Evelyn Waugh

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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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.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
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 is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship

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

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