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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.
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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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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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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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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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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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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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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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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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
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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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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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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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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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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older they merely know more.
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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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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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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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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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