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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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