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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.”

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Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.”

Stills Nature Instinct Strongest Natural Instinct

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“Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.”

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

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

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

Pride Instinct Egoism

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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The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max BeerbohmRelated source material

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