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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

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I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

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Saki

Born: December 18, 1870

Died: November 14, 1916 (aged 45)

Bio: Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture.

Known for:

The Complete Short Stories of Saki
The Interlopers
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)
The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers

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people, reginald, eyes, boy, life, early, talk, female, child, live, family, man, heard, beautiful, christianity

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