Max Beerbohm - A Christmas Garland (1912)

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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.

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

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

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Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

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It is doubtful whether the people of Southern England have even yet realized how much introspection there is going on all the time int he Five Towns.

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Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

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Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

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Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

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