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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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Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Sir Beerbohm
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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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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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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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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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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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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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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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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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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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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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
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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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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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