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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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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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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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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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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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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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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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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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True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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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 delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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