Quote by Arthur Balfour
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. - Arthur Balfour

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. – Arthur Balfour

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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour

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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. – Thomas Carlyle

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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti

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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldnt be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. – Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. – Hilaire Belloc

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