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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.

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
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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

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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