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

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Source : Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

Hector Hugh Munro

#Happiness Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.”
“The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.”
“Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.”
“A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.”
“You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.”
“If you only knew all the love that I found, it's hard to keep my soul on the ground.”
“I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.”
“I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?”

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