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Hector Hugh Munro

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

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His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

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Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

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