When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.
Two wives despaired of him,_ he said. __hen he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months a different man. And he hasn't touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him._ __hy did she do that?__ell, poor Charlie got rather a bore when he stopped drinking. But that__ not really the point of the story.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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Two wives despaired of him,_ he said. __hen he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months a different man. And he hasn't touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him._ __hy did she do that?__ell, poor Charlie got rather a bore when he stopped drinking. But that__ not really the point of the story.
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