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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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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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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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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.
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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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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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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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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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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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Incongruity is the mainspring 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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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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