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Hector Hugh Munro Inspirational Quotes (40)

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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
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Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.
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By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.
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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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