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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.

Evelyn Waugh

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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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 have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word

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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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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