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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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Hate, Grateful, Gossip

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

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• El gato de los tugurios y callejones, hambriento, marginado, acosado, aún mantiene en medio de los merodeos de su adversidad el paso audaz, libre, de pantera con el que recorría antaño los patios de los templos de Tebas, aún muestra la vigilancia autosuficiente que el hombre nunca le ha enseñado a dejar de lado.

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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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• Se me ha ocurrido que me gustaría ser poeta. El principal requisito, según tengo entendido, es haber nacido. Bueno, busqué mi certificado de nacimiento, y encontré que estaba bien en ese sentido.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Nacimiento, Poeta, Partitura

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• Nos dan direcciones para ocultar nuestro paradero.

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  Direcciones, Dado, Paradero

  'Reginald in Russia' (1910) 'Cross Currents'

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• ¿Por qué las mujeres son tan aficionadas a desenterrar el pasado? Son tan malas como los sastres, que invariablemente recuerdan lo que les debes por un traje mucho después de que hayas dejado de ponértelo.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Pasado, Largo, Sastres

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

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• There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

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  Hatred, Humanity, Decay

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.474, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• Cuando la gente se enriquece gradualmente, sus necesidades y su nivel de vida aumentan en proporción, mientras que sus instintos de dar el presente a menudo permanecen en la condición subdesarrollada de sus primeros días. Algo vistoso y no demasiado caro en una tienda es su única concepción del regalo ideal.

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  Personas, Donación, Caridad

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.156, Read Books Ltd

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• Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Children, Emotion, Given

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

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• To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

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  Clever, Dining, Afternoon

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

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

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  Fashion, Attention, Losing

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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• No hace falta que me digas que un hombre que no ama las ostras, los espárragos y los buenos vinos tiene alma, o estómago. Simplemente tiene el instinto de ser infeliz muy desarrollado.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Comida, Vino, Hombres

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

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• And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

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  Taken, Alarms, Vagueness

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.476, Delphi Classics

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• Una cosa era ir al fin del mundo y otra muy distinta sentirse allí como en casa. Incluso la respetabilidad parecía perder parte de su virtud cuando uno la practicaba en una tienda de campaña.

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  Home, World, Tents

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• The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

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  People, Crete

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham"

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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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• Romance at short notice was her speciality.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Short Notice, Romance

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.547, Delphi Classics

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• Insistiendo en que la botella apunte al norte cuando se saca el corcho, y llamando al camarero Max, puede causar una impresión en sus invitados que horas de jactancia serían incapaces de lograr. Para ello, sin embargo, los invitados deben ser elegidos con tanto cuidado como el vino.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Wine, Max, Purpose

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “The Chronicles of Clovis”, p.57, Read Books Ltd

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• I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

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  Divertido, Sarcástico, Sarcasmo

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.428, Delphi Classics

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Philosophy, Sleep, Cat

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics

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• There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

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  Kings, Rude, Smoking

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.297, Delphi Classics

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