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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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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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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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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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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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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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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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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older they merely know more.
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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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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
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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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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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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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