Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied. ✨ Max Beerbohm…

Max Beerbohm
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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
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History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. ✨ The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm.
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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

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