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“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.” quote by Hector Hugh Munro — Download Open image

“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

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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which…

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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.

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The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

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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…

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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep…

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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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