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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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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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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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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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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 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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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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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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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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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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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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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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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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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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Death cancels all engagements.
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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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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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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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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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