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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.
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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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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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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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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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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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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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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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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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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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