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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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Akyab
Hector Hugh Morro
H. H. Morro
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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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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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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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Find yourself a cup the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
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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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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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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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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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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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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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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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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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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