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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

Other quotes by Evelyn Waugh

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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Prison
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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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Evelyn Waugh
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Philosophical
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Only in the early morning light of day, and of life, can we see the world without its shadows. Truth requires new beginnings. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Philosophical

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Philosophical

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. – Henri Louis Bergson

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Philosophical

In the circle of life there is no top, no corner, and no straight lines. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Philosophical

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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Death

Italians know about human nature – they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it. – Donna Leon

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best

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. – Richard Steele

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Beauty

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they dont want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion