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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

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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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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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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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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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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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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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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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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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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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Romance at short notice was her speciality.
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
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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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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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