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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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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
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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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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 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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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 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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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 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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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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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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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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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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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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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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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