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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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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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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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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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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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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
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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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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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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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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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