Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh in Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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I put the words down and push them a bit.

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There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

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Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

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