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~ Max Beerbohm Quotes ~
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Max Beerbohm Quotes


An English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 – May 20, 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.

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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2015, 08:53:03 PM »
Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
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« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2015, 08:55:38 PM »
Some people are born to lift heavy weights some are born to juggle golden balls.
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« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2015, 08:56:26 PM »
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
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« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2015, 08:57:18 PM »
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2015, 08:58:15 PM »
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2015, 09:00:49 PM »
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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« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2015, 09:01:53 PM »
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
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« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2015, 09:03:02 PM »
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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