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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Evelyn Waugh

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
EVELYN WAUGH

Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
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.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

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