Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

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

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

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

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...

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

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

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who...

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who...

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of...

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.