Friendship Quote by Cyril Connolly

“A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.” quote by Cyril Connolly — Download Open image

“A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.”

Cyril Connolly

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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

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Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater…

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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

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