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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.
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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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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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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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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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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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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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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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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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