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Life Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro
- I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
- 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.
- 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…
- Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
- The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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