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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…

Evelyn Waugh

News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
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
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
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
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
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness

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