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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 Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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More quotes by Max Beerbohm
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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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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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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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 fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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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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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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Death cancels all engagements.
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In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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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 easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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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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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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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
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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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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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