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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
Max Beerbohm
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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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London
England
Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Sir Beerbohm
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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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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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks but that is another matter.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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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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True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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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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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 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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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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