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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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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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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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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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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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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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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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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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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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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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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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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
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