Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and hig…

Max Beerbohm
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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. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.94, New York Review of Books
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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2017). Zuleika Dobson, p.12, Enhanced Media Publishing
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.94, N … ▶
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Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2010). Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story, p.99, The Floating Press
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ✨ Lytton Strachey. Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.94, New York Review of Books

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