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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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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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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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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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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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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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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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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
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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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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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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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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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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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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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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 easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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