I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of … - Saki

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I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate.

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About Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

Saki (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture.

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Birth Name: Hector Hugh Munro

Alternative Names: H. H. Munro

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Thomas Hardy O. Henry Evelyn Waugh William Makepeace Thackeray Robertson Davies

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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

And the sleeper, eye unlidding,
Heard a voice for ever bidding
Much farewell to Dolly Gray;
Turning weary on his truckle-
Bed he heard the honey-suckle
Lauded in apiarian lay.

Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.

I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate. - Saki

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