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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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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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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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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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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 delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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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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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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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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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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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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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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