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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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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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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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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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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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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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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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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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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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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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