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

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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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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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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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True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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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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Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
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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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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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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 one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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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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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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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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