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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 Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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