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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.
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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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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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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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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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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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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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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
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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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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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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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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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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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