The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.
Evelyn WaughOne has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
Evelyn WaughOnce 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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