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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 cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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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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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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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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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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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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