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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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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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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
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