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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Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south...

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south...

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into...

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into...

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into...

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.

Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.