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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

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 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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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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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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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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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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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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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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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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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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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
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