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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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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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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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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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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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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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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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.
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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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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
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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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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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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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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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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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