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Them Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
- 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.
- Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him…
- Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself.…
- Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights…
- My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
- Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the…
- We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
- When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
- Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come…
- You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them
- I put the words down and push them a bit.
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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