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

Evelyn Waugh

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
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
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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
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
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
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself

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