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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Evelyn Waugh

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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 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
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

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