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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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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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