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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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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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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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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Death cancels all engagements.
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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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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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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