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Other Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro
- Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
- 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…
- 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…
- We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
- 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.
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