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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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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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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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Death cancels all engagements.
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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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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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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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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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Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.
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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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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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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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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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