Pessimism does win us great happy moments. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2006). And …

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Pessimism does win us great happy moments. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2006). And Even Now, p.88, 1st World Publishing
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.72, New York Review of Books
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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of M … ▶
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.71, New York Review of … ▶
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his … ▶

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