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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

Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy 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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science

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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