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The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
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Most women are not so young as they are painted.
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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.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Mainly on the Air (1946)

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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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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.
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was born in London, England, on August 24, 1872. He was the youngest son of Henry Beerbohm, a grain merchant, and his second wife, Eliza Draper. Educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford, Beerbohm soon distanced himself from formal academic studies to dedicate himself to the arts and writing. He gained fame as one of the finest essayists in English literature, known for his ironic style, his sharp observations on society, and his polished prose. "Zuleika Dobson," his only novel, is a comic fantasy set in Oxford. As a theater critic, Beerbohm was respected for his intelligence and wit. His caricatures, published in newspapers and magazines, humorously and insightfully portrayed literary, political, and social figures of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Theodore Roosevelt. He was knighted in 1939. Sir Max Beerbohm died in Rapallo, Italy, on October 20, 1956.