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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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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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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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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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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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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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There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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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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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
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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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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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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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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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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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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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