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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 Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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Incongruity is the mainspring 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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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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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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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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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Max Beerbohm
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.
Max Beerbohm
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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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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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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It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks but that is another matter.
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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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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
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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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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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.
Max Beerbohm
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Max Beerbohm
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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