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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge; it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Robert Darwin		Wednesday Dec 24, 2025
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'What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. Ill be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. Whats a cabinet for, if theres not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?' Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Quote Author: Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

	Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
	(1903-1966) English author.

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I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

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

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food ... of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns.... He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods ... endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavour with flavour from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of old brandy.

'What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. Ill be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. Whats a cabinet for, if theres not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?'

It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.