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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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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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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
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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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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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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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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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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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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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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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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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
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Romance at short notice was her speciality.
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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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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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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