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Best Quotes by Max Beerbohm (Top 10)
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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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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Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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People are either born hosts or born guests.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
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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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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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More Max Beerbohm Quotes
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
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History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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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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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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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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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....
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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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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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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. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
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