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

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
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
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
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
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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

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

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