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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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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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

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Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. – Neville Cardus

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The only thing you take with you when youre gone is what you leave behind. – John Allston

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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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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. – Karl Popper, Unended Quest

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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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