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• He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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  Happiness, Oysters, Unhappy

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

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  Funny, Children, Cat

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.849, Delphi Classics

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• The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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  Age, Youth, Young

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton"

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• A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  The Square Egg (1924) "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business"

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• Women and elephants never forget an injury.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Women, Elephants, Never Forget

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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• Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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  Home, Together, Poverty

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics

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

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  Use, Growing, Way

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

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• Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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  Children, Emotion, Given

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

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• In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

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  Rooms, Cheese, Mice

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.847, Delphi Classics

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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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  Hate, Grateful, Gossip

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.356, Delphi Classics

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• 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 at all.

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  Optimism, Pessimism, Middle

  'Beasts and Super-Beasts' (1914) 'The Byzantine Omelette'

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• He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) "The Feast of Nemesis"

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• 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 going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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  Food, Childhood, Wish

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

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  Healing, Tea, Finding Yourself

  "The Toys of Peace and Other Papers".

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• I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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  Beautiful, Buddhism, Thinking

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

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  Couple, Politics, Sometimes

  'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)

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• You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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  Food, Wine, Men

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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  Beautiful, Buddhism, Oysters

  "The Chronicles of Clovis". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1911.

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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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  Believe, Food, Important

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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 it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

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  Adversity, Cat, Men

  "The Square Egg". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Achievement of the Cat", 1924.

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• Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

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  Drinking, Wife, Mistress

  Reginald in Russia (1910) "A Young Turkish Catastrophe"

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• It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

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  Home, World, Tents

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• On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

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  Horse, Hands, Two

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics

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• People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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  Children, Sight, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics

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• Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

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  Past, Long, Tailors

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.289, Delphi Classics

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