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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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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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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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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
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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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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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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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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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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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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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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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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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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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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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