{"author":"Max Beerbohm","author_id":"Max+Beerbohm","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["books","goodreads","reading","self-improvement"],"id":3538,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"text":"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["mediocrity","always","trusted "],"id":3772,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"text":"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["quips","comments"],"id":9187,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"text":"The past is a work of art  free of irrelevancies and loose ends.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["memory"],"id":26953,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"text":"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["good","personality "],"id":84422,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"text":"The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["greatness"],"id":99311,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"text":"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["giving","feel","give "],"id":112270,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"text":"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["breakfast","people","table "],"id":112406,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"text":"Some people are born to lift heavy weights  some are born to juggle golden balls.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["work"],"id":151821,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"},{"text":"Humility is a virtue  and it is a virtue innate in guests.","author":"Max Beerbohm","tags":["virtue"],"id":167042,"author_id":"Max+Beerbohm"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}