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Max Beerbohm was an English essayist and satirist known for his wit and satirical style. His works often focused on social and cultural satire, offering profound insights into the customs of his time and the literary world.

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Famous Max Beerbohm Quotes

“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.”

Humans Wells Two Character Might Human Beings Accepting Class Mankind Offers Negative Instinct Active Significant Host Guests Passive Hospitality

Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”

Wells Two Might Class Mankind Host Guests Max House Guests

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“People are either born hosts or born guests.”

People Born Host Guests

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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.”

Should Mankind Type Supreme Host Standing Out Hostesses Lady Macbeth

Book:The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

About the Author

Born: August 24, 1872
Died: May 20, 1956
Known for: Essayist
Quotes: 100

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