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Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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
Sir Beerbohm
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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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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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Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
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