Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life t… - Saki

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Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life the wondering look of a dreamer, the eyes of one who sees things that are not visible to ordinary mortals, and invests the commonplace things of this world with qualities unsuspected by plainer folk – the eyes of a poet or a house agent.

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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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It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

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

Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life the wondering look of a dreamer, the eyes of one who sees things that are not visible to or… - Saki

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