People are either born hosts or born guests.

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• Max Beerbohm:

  Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

• Max Beerbohm:

  All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

• Max Beerbohm:

  When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

• Max Beerbohm:

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

• Max Beerbohm:

  Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

• Max Beerbohm:

  No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

• Max Beerbohm:

  A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

• Max Beerbohm:

  Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

• Max Beerbohm:

  No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

• Theodore Parker:

  Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rej