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Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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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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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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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True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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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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