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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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
Sir Beerbohm
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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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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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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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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Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
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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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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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