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Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
Envy
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.
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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
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... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
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... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
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