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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 Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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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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