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Creative Quotations from Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) born on Aug 24 English essayist, caricaturist, parodist; The Incomparable Max wrote many elegant essays,

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2 Creative Quotations from Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) born on Aug 24 English essayist, caricaturist, parodist; The Incomparable Max wrote many elegant essays, the novel Zuleika Dobson, 1911, and a pictorial volume of caricatures.

3 Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

4 Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

5 Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

6 It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

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

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9 CREDITS: Copyright 2008, Baertracks. BeMoreCreative & Creative Quotations are pending trademarks. Public domain photo from Wikimedia Commons. Background music from Sound Ideas.

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