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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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On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.
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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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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older they merely know more.
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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
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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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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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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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Romance at short notice was her speciality.
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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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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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