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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.
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 Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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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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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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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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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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There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
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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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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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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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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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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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