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About Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm was a 19th-century English writer and caricaturist. Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. Read more on Wikipedia →

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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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“To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.”
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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.”
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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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“You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.”
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“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”
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