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World War I

is a hateful little thing: they're so human..

is often spared with a little inaccuracy.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

is the western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

is more beautiful than any religion, for there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches its sympathetic unselfishness, their incitement to be perfectly horrid to them.

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.

Hector Hugh Munro

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