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Max Beerbohm: 'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'

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Max Beerbohm: 'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'

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Max Beerbohm: 'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'

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Max Beerbohm: 'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.'

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Max Beerbohm: 'To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.'

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Max Beerbohm: 'To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'I put the words down and push them a bit.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.'

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Roger Ascham: 'Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.'

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Roger Ascham: 'In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.'

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Roger Ascham: 'Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.'

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Roger Ascham: 'The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.'

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Roger Ascham: 'There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.'

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Roger Ascham: 'To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.'

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