Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success
Philip Guedalla
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.
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Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
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Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is [as] unfair as only sport can be.
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Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment
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The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
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People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
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The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
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