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Biography is one of the new terrors of death. - John Arbuthnot

Biography is one of the new terrors of death. – John Arbuthnot

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

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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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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle

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Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. – Anon.

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