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- Punctuality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 into their kingdom.
- Cherish
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
- First-Rate
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- Nov 07, 2020
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
- Destruction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
- Britons
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
- Clergyman
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
- Manners
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
- Nov 07, 2020
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
- Discretion
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- Nov 07, 2020