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Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm föddes den 24 august 1872 och dog den 20 maj 1956 - brittisk tecknare och författare.
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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.

Pessimism does win us some great moments.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

. . . but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

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.

Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

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

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

He cannot see beyond his own nose. Even the fingers he outstretches from it to the world are (as I shall suggest) often invisible to him.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best

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