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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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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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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 quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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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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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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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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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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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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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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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 is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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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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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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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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