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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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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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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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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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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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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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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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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 man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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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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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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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 past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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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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