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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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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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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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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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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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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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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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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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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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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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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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