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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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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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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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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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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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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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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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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 hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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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 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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