Max Beerbohm
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"Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm" was an English essayist, Parody/parodist, and Caricature/caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.

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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

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

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

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.

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

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

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

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.