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Mr. Sniggs, the Junior Dean, and Mr. Postlethwaite, the Domestic Bursar, sat alone in Mr. Sniggs's room overlooking the garden quad at Scone College. (Evelyn Waugh)
As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit, or belief, they were called a Republic. View quote
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...But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could deal with - the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's. View quote
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I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. View quote
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And the only interest about him arises from the unusual series of events of which his shadow was witness. View quote
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She seemed to say "Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?" View quote
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Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY. View quote
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There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit. View quote
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Lord Copper quite often gave banquets; it would be an understatement to say that no one enjoyed them more than the host, for no one else enjoyed them at all, while Lord Copper positively exulted in every minute. View quote
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They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights of home and the voices of children. View quote
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Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape. (Evelyn Waugh)
While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, "achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters." View quote
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I had warned my father that my viva might mean a second. It meant a third, and I was overcome with regret, not, I am ashamed to say, for the giddy nights, but for the sober ones. I had not done much work, but I had done some. Had I known I was only to get a third I would not have wasted my time. View quote
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All day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen, unheard behind the scrubby foothills. It shook the rusty fringes of palm-leaf and swelled the dry sounds of summer, the frog-voices, the grating cicadas, and the ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts. View quote
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Chokey thinks religion is just divine. View quote
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We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School. Frankly," said Mr Levy, "School is pretty bad... View quote
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The Beast stands for strong mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," he said. "Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad. View quote
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Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. View quote
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How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candour in a story of early manhood which leaves out of account the home-sickness for nursery morality, the regrets and resolutions of amendment, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity. View quote
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My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. View quote
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Up to a point, Lord Copper. (Evelyn Waugh)
So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. 'Let's surprise her,' said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - 'My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded. View quote
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We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim... View quote
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I have become very old in the last two years. Not diseased but enfeebled. There is nowhere I want to go and nothing I want to do and I am conscious of being an utter bore. The Vatican Council has knocked the guts out of me. View quote
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I find the new liturgy a temptation against Faith, Hope and Charity but I shall never, pray God, apostatise. View quote
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