“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.”

—  Max Beerbohm

Hosts and Guests (1918), Harper&#x27;s Monthly ( August 1919 http://books.google.com/books?id=H2Q2AQAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22Mankind+is+divisible+into+two+great+classes+hosts+and+guests%22&amp;pg=PA425#v=onepage) <br class="br"> And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

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