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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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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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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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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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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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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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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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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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True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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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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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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