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Evelyn Waugh Quote - The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Ability Cherish Friendship Ourselves
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
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
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
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
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste

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