I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has ma… - Max Beerbohm

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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Max Beerbohm

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Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English writer and caricaturist.

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Birth Name: Henry Maximilian Beerbohm

Alternative Names: Sir Max Beerbohm • Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm • Sir Beerbohm • Gerd Beerbohm

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Samuel Johnson Oscar Wilde William Hazlitt Anthony Trollope George Bernard Shaw

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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. - Max Beerbohm

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