What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

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Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Evelyn Waugh in Work Suspended (1943)
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

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