Max Beerbohm - Instinct Quotes

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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

In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Max Beerbohm

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Max Beerbohm