176 Quotes by Max Beerbohm

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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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    I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

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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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    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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    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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    It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

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