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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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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Hector Hugh Morro
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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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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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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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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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