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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Max Beerbohm
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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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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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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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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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Death cancels all engagements.
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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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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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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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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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