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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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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. – Thomas Carlyle

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

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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. – W. H. Auden

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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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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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