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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horro

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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

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Wisdom
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Evelyn Waugh
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If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh

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Summer
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Evelyn Waugh
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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. – Evelyn Waugh

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Paradise, Utopia
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One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, “Is it half full or half empty?” So I drank the water. No more problem. – Alexander Jodorowsky

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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. – Hippocrates, Aphorisms

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Philosophical

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Philosophical

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. – Aesop

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Philosophical

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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. – Albert Einstein

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All that I know I learned after I was thirty. – Georges Clemenceau

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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that Im worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they dont, I gave it all that I had to this game. – Rafael Palmeiro

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respect

Television is a gold goose that lays scramble eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. – Lee Loevinger

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