A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
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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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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 was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm
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Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Max Beerbohm
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max Beerbohm
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Max Beerbohm
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm
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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.
Max Beerbohm
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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.
Max Beerbohm
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Max Beerbohm
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You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
Max Beerbohm
