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Max Beerbohm Inspirational Quotes (53)

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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.
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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.
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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks but that is another matter.
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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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