There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. - Hector Hugh Munro
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
- Hector Hugh Munro
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is goin… - Hector Hugh Munro
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is goin…
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions. - Hector Hugh Munro
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. - Hector Hugh Munro
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart. - Hector Hugh Munro
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. - Hector Hugh Munro
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. - Hector Hugh Munro
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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
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.
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. - Hector Hugh Munro
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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