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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.
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 hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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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 man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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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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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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