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One Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro
- No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
- 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…
- Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
- 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…
- There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you…
- 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…
- 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…
- He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
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