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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Evelyn Waugh

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
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
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son

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