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

Evelyn Waugh

If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
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
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 put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time

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