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One Quotes by Max Beerbohm
- One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
- You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
- To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
- Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with…
- Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history…
- She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
- Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
- The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
- The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
- The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
- History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare