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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
H. H. Morro
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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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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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Romance at short notice was her speciality.
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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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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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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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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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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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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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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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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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