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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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Hector Hugh Munro
Age: 45 †
Born: 1870
Born: December 18
Died: 1916
Died: November 13
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Hector Hugh Morro
H. H. Morro
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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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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 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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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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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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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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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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
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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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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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Romance at short notice was her speciality.
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Find yourself a cup the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
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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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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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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
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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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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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