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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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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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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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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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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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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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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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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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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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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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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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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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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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