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Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
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He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.
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You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
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She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
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Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir,Albeit to see you Iām unglad.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
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The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.
Max Beerbohm -
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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You will find my last words in the blue folder.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm
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Death cancels all engagements.
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People are either born hosts or born guests.
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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm