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

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

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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour

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Mankind, Man
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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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Art
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Arthur Balfour
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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. – Italo Calvino

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Legacy

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. – Augusto Roa Bastos

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Legacy

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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Legacy

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

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I wouldnt change anything. I think that its important to let things happen, and stay happened. I think thats all part of the learning curve, part of fate. Im just glad that it happened. – Mike Peters

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. – Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue — agree with him. – Edward W. Howe

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I understand why people went nuts for The Artist. We use words so much, its nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone – or something – is thinking or feeling. – Andy Serkis

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communication