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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
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
H. H. Morro
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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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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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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
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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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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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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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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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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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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
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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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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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