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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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Death cancels all engagements.
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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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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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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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