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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.Max Beerbohm
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I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.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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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.Max Beerbohm
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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.Max Beerbohm
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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.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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The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.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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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.Max Beerbohm
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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.Max Beerbohm
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Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.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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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.Max Beerbohm
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.Max Beerbohm
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.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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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
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.Max Beerbohm