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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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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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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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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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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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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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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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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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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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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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older they merely know more.
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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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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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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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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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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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