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• Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

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  Tired, Men, Wonderful

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• Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

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  Song, Philosophy, Humanity

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.44, New York Review of Books

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

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  Art, Vitality, Sensitive

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Seven Men”, p.15, The Floating Press

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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.

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  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 4

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• 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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  Play, Literature, Painting

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Mainly on the Air”

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• Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

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  Humility, Guests, Virtue

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.69, New York Review of Books

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• Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

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  Stupid, Character, Men

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

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• For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.

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  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

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  Done, Given, Should

  Mainly on the Air "From Bloomsbury to Baywater" (1946)

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

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  Work, Men, Outcomes

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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.

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  Spiritual, Men, Genius

  And Even Now (1920) "No. 2, The Pines"

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• Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

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  Love, Men, Bitter

  'Zuleika Dobson' (1911) ch. 4

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• The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

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  Sage, Hearing, Idiot

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Rupert Hart-Davis (1988). “Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956”

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• Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

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  Writing, Kind, Hypocritical

  Max Beerbohm (2005). “Yet Again”, p.56, 1st World Publishing

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• It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

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  Quality, Easier, Claims

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.72, New York Review of Books

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• Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

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  Laughter, Believe, Grateful

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.115, New York Review of Books

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• It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.

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  Easier, Enthusiastic

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• 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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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Essence

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• 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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  Dark, Race, Spirit

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1960). “And Even Now: And, A Christmas Garland”

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• True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

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  Fashion, Body, Limits

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.129, New York Review of Books

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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.

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  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

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• I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

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  Politics, Anarchist, Should

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.88, New York Review of Books

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• Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

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  Time, Men, Islands

  Max Beerbohm (2017). “Zuleika Dobson”, p.12, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

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  Strength, Nature, Men

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.95, New York Review of Books

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