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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 Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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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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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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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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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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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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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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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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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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