W. H. Auden

Puzzles

• If ___ affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.
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• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them ___.
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• ___ is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to W. H. Auden?

  • → If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
  • → Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you are forced to.
  • → A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
  • → The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to W. H. Auden.

  • → One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
  • → My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
  • → It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
  • → The only way to atone for being occasionally a little overdressed is by being always absolutely overeducated.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to W. H. Auden.

  • → April, like a child, writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, wipes them away and forgets.
  • → Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
  • → Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
  • → The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
  
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