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Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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

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"When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift."

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

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

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

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"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve."

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

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