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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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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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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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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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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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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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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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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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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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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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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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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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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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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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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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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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