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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.
Hector Hugh Munro
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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.
Hector Hugh Munro -
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
Hector Hugh Munro -
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Hector Hugh Munro -
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
Hector Hugh Munro -
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Hector Hugh Munro -
Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
Hector Hugh Munro
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It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
Hector Hugh Munro -
If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.
Hector Hugh Munro -
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.
Hector Hugh Munro -
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.
Hector Hugh Munro
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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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Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
Hector Hugh Munro -
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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Romance at short notice was her speciality.
Hector Hugh Munro -
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
Hector Hugh Munro -
Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.
Hector Hugh Munro
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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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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
Hector Hugh Munro -
There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
Hector Hugh Munro -
The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
Hector Hugh Munro