I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - … - Max Beerbohm

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Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

Max Beerbohm

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

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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.

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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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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

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