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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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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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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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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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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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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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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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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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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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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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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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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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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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