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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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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Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died 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 hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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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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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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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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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 was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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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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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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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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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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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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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 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 Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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