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Max Beerbohm Inspirational Quotes (53)

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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
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A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
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As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
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I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
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The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
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