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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

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
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
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
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
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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

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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