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• The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

  Max Beerbohm

  Wise, Art, Work

  "Lytton Strachey". Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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• There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is laughter at its best. A man to whom such laughter has often been granted may happen to die in a work-house. No matter. I will not admit that he has failed in life. Another man, who has never laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Abbey, leaving more than a million pounds overhead. What then? I regard him as a failure.

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  Laughter, Men, House

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1960). “And Even Now: And, A Christmas Garland”

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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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  Men, Vanity, Theme

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Mainly on the Air”

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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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  Eye, Window To The Soul, Needs

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

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  Balance, Modesty, Popularity

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• Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

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  Inspiration, Matter, Nonsense

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• All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

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  Reality, Should Have, Fantasy

  "Zuleika Dobson". Book by Max Beerbohm, 1946.

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• I may be old fashioned, but I am right.

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  May, Old Fashioned

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1968). “Around Theatres”

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• It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

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  Leader, Pace, Oblivion

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.114, New York Review of Books

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• When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

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  Art, Soul, House Guests

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.91, 1st World Publishing

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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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  Character, Class, Two

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.81, 1st World Publishing

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• I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

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  Believe, Twenties, Four

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1922). “Works”

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• Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

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  School, Oxford, Students

  'More' (1899) 'Going Back to School'

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• Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

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  Hatred, Hateful, Objects

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.201, The Floating Press

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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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  Grief, Light, Hypocrisy

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.71, 1st World Publishing

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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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  Beauty, Distance, Eye

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.110, The Floating Press

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• People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

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  Dream, People, Night Terrors

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1968). “Around Theatres”

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• To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

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  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

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• Nobody ever died of laughter.

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  Funny, Life, Happiness

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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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  Stupid, Character, Men

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

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• Death cancels all engagements.

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  Engagement

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.119, The Floating Press

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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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  Spiritual, Men, Genius

  And Even Now (1920) "No. 2, The Pines"

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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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  Inspirational, Nightmare, Poor

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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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  Girl, Sex, Speak

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1896). “The Works of Max Beerbohm”, p.79, Library of Alexandria

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• No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

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  Night, Able, Lasts

  And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests"

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