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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.
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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Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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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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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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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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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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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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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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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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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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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 easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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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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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
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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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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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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 seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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