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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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Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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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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Death cancels all engagements.
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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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