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I expect you’ll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That’s what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behavior.

The New Yale Book of Quotations
If one’s object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of makingan after-dinner speech without the help ofpoetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.
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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.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead.

Scoop (1938) bk. 1, ch. 5

One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilising or it will die.

The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1962)

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

A Little Learning (1964)

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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