Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Max Beerbohm

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Topic

Hospitality

Author

Max Beerbohm

Source

Hosts and Guests And Even Now

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Beerbohm, Max. "Hosts and Guests." And Even Now. William Heinemann, 1920. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, 1919.

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Are you lost daddy I asked tenderly.
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Ring Lardner

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Parents and children

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Ring Lardner
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Lardner, Ring. "The Young Immigrunts." Ring Lardner: Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 1997. Originally published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1920, ch. 10.

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

The Second Coming

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Decline of civilization Moral decline

Author

W.B. Yeats
Source
The Second Coming
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.