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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. - Thoma

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

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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle

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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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A mans memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become. – Fawn M. Brodie

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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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Every man – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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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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