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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.

Evelyn Waugh

The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose Yourself
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
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

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