“The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”

— Max Beerbohm

Source: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IV

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English writer 1872–1956

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