Quote by Evelyn Waugh
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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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – 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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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854

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Before I travelled my road I was my road. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. – Edward R. Murrow

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A stumble may prevent a fall. – English Proverb

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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. – Chinese Proverb

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These messengers will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night. – Herodotus

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Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription. – Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric

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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. – Pierre Corneille

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