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Evelyn Waugh has 157 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take…
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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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…
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be…
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of…
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away…
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But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam
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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and…
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When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching…
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Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with…
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Minks are mean little critters. Vicous, horrible little animals who eat their own. They're not beavers. I wouldn't wear beavers. I'd rather…
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A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts…
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
— Stephanie Coontz
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Manchester City are defending like beavers
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A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love…
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