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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

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
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
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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

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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