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''The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.''

[H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Beasts and Super-Beasts, "Fur." Pseudonym oh Hector Hugh Munro.

''A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.''

[H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business," The Square Egg (1924).

''Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.''

[H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Courtenay Youghal, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912).

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

[H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. "Hyacinth," The Toys of Peace (1919).

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

[H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Lady Caroline, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912).

''No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.''

[H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Lady Caroline, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 7 (1912).

''He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.''

[H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. The Archdeacon, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912). Said of De la Poulett; real name is H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro.

''Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.''

[H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. The Baroness, in "Esmé," The Chronicles of Clovis (1911).