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• Strange, when you think of it, that of all the countless folks who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or legend as having died of laughter.
  -- Sir Max Beerbohm...
• Most women are not so young as they are painted. -- Max Beerbohm
• Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently.
  Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth....
• Reality is for people with no grasp of fantasy.
• People are either born hosts or born guests. -- Max Beerbohm
• Rocks have been shaken from their solid base, but what shall move a firm and dauntless mind?
  -- Joanna Baillie...
• Reality is only fantasy gone stale.
• Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. -- Max Beerbohm
• The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
  -- Max Beerbohm...