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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

Evelyn Waugh

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

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