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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
Sir Beerbohm
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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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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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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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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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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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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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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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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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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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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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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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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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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