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Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
MAX BEERBOHM, Hosts and Guests
The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
MAX BEERBOHM, King George the Fourth
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
MAX BEERBOHM, Zuleika Dobson
Men of genius are not quick judges of character.
MAX BEERBOHM, Quia Imperfectum
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
MAX BEERBOHM, A Defence of Cosmetics
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.
MAX BEERBOHM, Quia Imperfectum
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.
MAX BEERBOHM, Quia Imperfectum
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