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

Evelyn Waugh

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble 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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
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
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
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
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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

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