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Picture of Max Beerbohm. Max Beerbohm, The Critic Volume XXXIX (November 1901), by Russell & Sons

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Sir Henry Maximilian 'Max' Beerbohm (24 August 1872 ? 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.

❝I am a Tory Anarchist; I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.❞ [+]

❝Man is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.❞ [+]

❝Most women are not so young as they are painted.❞ [+]

❝Only the insane take themselves quite seriously. ❞ [+]

❝To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.❞ [+]

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