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There is laughter that goes s...

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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Heroes are very human, most o...

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

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It is a fact that not once in...

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Have you noticed ... there is...

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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A man's work is rather the ne...

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

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By its very looseness, by its...

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

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Somehow, our sense of justice...

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

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People seem to think there is...

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

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Pessimism does win us great h...

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

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Every one, even the richest a...

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

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Improvisation is the essence ...

Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.

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There is in the human race so...

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

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There is much virtue in a win...

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

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The past is a work of art, fr...

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

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History does not repeat itsel...

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

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Only mediocrity can be truste...

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

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The most perfect caricature i...

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.

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The hospitable instinct is no...

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

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It is a part of English hypoc...

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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"After all," as a pretty girl...

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

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