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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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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. – Max Beerbohm

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Genius
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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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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. – Joseph De Maistre

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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, 1799

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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. – Aesop, “The Man and His Two Wives,” Fables

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The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. – Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 1932 July 30th

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The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating. – John Walters

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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier — the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. – Chinese Proverb

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