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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 Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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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 fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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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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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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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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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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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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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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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
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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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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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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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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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