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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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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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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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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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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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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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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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Find yourself a cup the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
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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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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