The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. -Max Beerbohm

 

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.


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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

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Nobody ever died of laughter.

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

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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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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.

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