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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
Historian
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Hector Hugh Morro
H. H. Morro
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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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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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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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Find yourself a cup the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
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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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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
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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 cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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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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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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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