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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

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
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
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking 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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel

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