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“Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.” quote by Hector Hugh Munro — Download Open image

“Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.”

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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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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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