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• Max Beerbohm:

  The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

• Max Beerbohm:

  Most women are not as young as they are painted.

• Max Beerbohm:

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

• Max Beerbohm:

  You will find my last words in the blue folder.

• Max Beerbohm:

  Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I su

• Max Beerbohm:

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

• Max Beerbohm:

  The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

• Max Beerbohm:

  Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivia

• Max Beerbohm:

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

• Max Beerbohm:

  To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than