Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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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. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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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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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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People are either born hosts or born 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. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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

— Max Beerbohm

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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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