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“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.”

Evelyn Waugh

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“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper”

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“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.”

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“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.”

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