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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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 Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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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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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 Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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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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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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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of 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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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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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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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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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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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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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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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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