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Quote by Max Beerbohm
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. – Max Beerbohm

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She was one of those people who said I dont know anything about music, but I know what I like. – Max Beerbohm

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Music
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Max Beerbohm
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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. – Max Beerbohm

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Beauty
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Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. – George Santayana

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others. – Romain Rolland

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

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I change during the course of a day. I wake and Im one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain Im somebody else. – Bob Dylan

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Im insecure about everything, because… Im never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what Id like to look like. – Cher

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. – Desiderius Erasmus

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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, Ive done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier? – Douglas MacArthur

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