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

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
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
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
Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking

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