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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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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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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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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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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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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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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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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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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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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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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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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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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True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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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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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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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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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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