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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

Hector Hugh Munro

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Hector Hugh Munro
Age: 45 †
Born: 1870
Born: December 18
Died: 1916
Died: November 13
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
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Akyab
Hector Hugh Morro
H. H. Morro
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Romance
Short

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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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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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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
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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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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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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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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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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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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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