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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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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Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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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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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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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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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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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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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.
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