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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
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
Sir Beerbohm
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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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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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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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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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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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 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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