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

 

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


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This quote is just one of 9 total Hector Hugh Munro quotes in our collection. Hector Hugh Munro is known for saying 'No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.' as well as some of the following quotes.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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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. -Hector Hugh Munro
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Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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153

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

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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. -Hector Hugh Munro
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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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