Hector Hugh Munro Quotes, Past Quotes, Long Quotes

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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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

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I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

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As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

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Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

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She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

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We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not.

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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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You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

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We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged that disputes be resolved peacefully, including through mechanisms like international arbitration.

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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

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We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

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...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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