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Макс Бирбом — английский писатель, художник-карикатурист, книжный иллюстратор.

✵ 24. Август 1872 – 20. Май 1956   •   Другие имена Henry Maximilian Max Beerbohm
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„Все, что стоило делать, уже делалось, поэтому теперь есть смысл обратить внимание на то, чего делать не стоит.“

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“Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.”

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Max Beerbohm

Источник: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. II

“Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.”

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Max Beerbohm

Источник: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. XIII

“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.”

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Max Beerbohm

Hosts and Guests (1918), Harper's Monthly ( August 1919 http://books.google.com/books?id=H2Q2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Mankind+is+divisible+into+two+great+classes+hosts+and+guests%22&pg=PA425#v=onepage)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

“Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.”

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Max Beerbohm

Источник: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. XV

“Death cancels all engagements.”

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Max Beerbohm

Источник: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. VII

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

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Max Beerbohm

Books Within Books (1914)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)