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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
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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Hector Hugh Morro
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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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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
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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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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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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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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older they merely know more.
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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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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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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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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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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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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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