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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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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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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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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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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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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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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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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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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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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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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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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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