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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.

Evelyn Waugh

You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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

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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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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