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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

Hector Hugh Munro

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Hector Hugh Munro
Age: 45 †
Born: 1870
Born: December 18
Died: 1916
Died: November 13
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Hector Hugh Morro
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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.
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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
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But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
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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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On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older they merely know more.
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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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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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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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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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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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Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
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