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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

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
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
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird

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.

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