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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

If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality 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
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
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
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
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
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression

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