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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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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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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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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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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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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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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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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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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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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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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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