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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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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True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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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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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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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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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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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 delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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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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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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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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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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