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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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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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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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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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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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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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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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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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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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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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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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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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